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THE 


VIRGINIA    MAGAZINE 


OF 


HISTORY  AND   BIOGRAPHY. 


Published  Quaxiterly  by 

THE  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 

FOR  THE 

YEAR  ENDING  DECEMBER  31,  1913. 


VOUUIVIE  XXf, 


Richmond,   Va. 

HOUSE  OF  THE  SOCIETY, 

No.  707   East  Franklin  St. 

Reprinted  with  the  permission  of  the  original  publisher 
KRAUS  REPRINT   CORPORATION 

New  York 
1968 


PUBLICATION  COMMITTEE. 

ARCHER  ANDERSON, 
C.  V.  MEREDITH, 
E.  V.  VALENTINE, 
Rev.  W.  MEADE  CLARK. 


Editor   of  the 
WILLIAM  G.  STANARD. 


Reprinted  in  U.S.A. 


/ 

Table  of  Contents  O. 


Book  Reviews 110,  221,  334,  445  Y^ 

O* 

Council  and  General  Court  Minutes  1622-1629.  From  the  Originals 
in  the  Library  of  Congress.  Copied  and  Contributed  by 
Lothrop  Withington 45,  136,  281 

Council   Papers  1698-1700.     From  the   Originals  in    the   Virginia 

State  Library 67,  163,  254,  384 

Genealogy:    Beverley 97,  212,  305 

Boiling 310,  422 

Brent 96 

Empereour 417 

Eppes 218 

Poindexter 102,  214,  314 

Rolfe 105,  208 

Slaughter 306,  427 

Turner 106,  211,  315,  421 

Henry  County  Marriage  License  Bonds  1770-1800.       Contributed 

by  Col.  b.  B.  Bryant 277 

Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  and  Queries 81,  193,  317,  431 

Illustrations:     Boiling  Hall,  Yorskshire,  England 310a 

Heacham  Church 98a 

Heacham  Hall 98a 

Pocahontas,  from  the  original  portrait 20Sa 

Portrait  of  Robert  James  Brent 96a 

Smith's  Fort  House,  Exterior  and  interior  views  ..  208a 

Smith's  Fort,  Remains  of  Earthworks  at 210a 

Smith's  Fort,  View  from  Bluff  at 210a 

Ludwell,  Philip,  Inventory  of  Estate,  1707.      From  the  original  in 

the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society 395 

Massie,  Major  Thomas,  Revolutionary  Pension  Declaration 184 

Randolph  Manuscript,  Virginia  Seventeenth  Century  Records. 
From  the  Original  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society 1.  113,  225,347 


IV  TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Revolutionary  Army  Orders  for  the  Main  Army  under  Washington. 
From  the  Originals  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Histori- 
cal Society 24,  155,  293,  377 

Revolutionary    Pension  Declarations,  from  Augusta  County,  Va. 

Contributed  by  Judge  Lyman  Chalkley 8 

Sussex  County  Wills,  1754-1804  (M-P).       Contributed  by  W.  B. 

Cridlin 269 

Virginia  Gleanings  in  England,  (Wills,  &c.,)   by  Lothrop  Withing- 

ton 153,  249,  372 

Virginia's  Soldiers  in  the  Revolution.     A  Bibliography,  by  C.  A. 

Flagg  and  W.  O.  Waters 337 

Virginia  in  16G6-1667.      From  English  Public  Records 33 

Virginia  in  1667-1G76.     From  English  Public  Records 122 

Virginia  in  1676-1677.     From  English  Public  Records 234 

Virginia  in  1677.      From  English  Public  Records 359 

Virginia  Historical  Society,  List  of  Officers  and  Members,  January, 
1913.     January  Magazine. 

Virginia  Historical  Society,  Proceedings  of  Annual  Meeting,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1913.     April  Magazine. 


THE 


VIRGINIA    MAGAZINE 


OF 


HISTORY  AND   BIOGRAPHY. 


Published  Quarterly  by 

THE  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 

FOR  THE 

YEAR  ENDING  DECEMBER  31,  1913. 


VOLUME  XXI. 


Richmond,  Va. 
HOUvSE  OF  THE  SOCIETY, 
No.  707   East  Franklin  St. 

Reprinted  with  the  permission  of  the  original  publisher 
KRAUS  REPRINT  CORPORATION 

New  York 
1968 


TTHE 


Virginia  Magazine 

OF 

HISTORY  AND  BIOGRAPHY. 

Vol.  XXI.  JANUARY,  1913.  No.  1 

THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT. 


Virginia  Seventeenth  Century  Records. 


From  the  Original  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society 

Commission  and  Instructions  to  the  Earl  of  Orkney 
FOR  the  Government  of  Virginia. 


(Continued.) 


And  We  do  hereby  require  and  Command  all  Officers  & 
Ministers  Civil  &  Military,  and  all  other  Inhabitants  of  our 
said  Colony  &  Dominion  to  be  obedient  aiding  &  assisting  unto 
you  the  said  George  Earl  of  Orkney  in  the  Execution  of  this 
our  Commission,  and  of  the  Powers  &  Authioities  herein  con- 
tain'd,  &  in  Case  of  your  Death  or  Absence  out  of  our  said 
Colony  to  be  obedient  aiding  &  Assisting  unto  such  person  as 
shall  be  appointed  by  us  to  be  our  Lieut  Govemour  or  Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  our  said  Colony  To  whom  we  do  therefore 


2  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINB 

by  these  Presents  Give  &  Grant  all  &  Singular  the  Powers  & 
Authorities  herein  granted  to  be  by  hiro  Executed  &  Enjoy'd 
during  our  Pleasure,  or  untill  your  Arrival  within  our  said 
Colony — If  upon  your  Death  or  Absence  out  of  our  said  Col- 
ony there  be  no  Person  upon  the  Place  commissionated  or 
appointed  by  us  to  be  our  Lieut  Governor  or  Commander  in 
Chief  of  the  said  Colony  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  is,  That  the 
Eldest  Councellor  whose  Name  is  first  Plac'd  in  our  said  In- 
structions to  you,  and  who  shall  be  at  the  time  of  your  Death 
or  Absence,  residing  within  our  said  Colony  &  Dominion  of 
Virginia,  shall  take  upon  him  the  Administration  of  the  Gov- 
ernment, and  Execute  our  said  Commission  &  Instructions, 
And  the  Several  Powers  &  Authorities  therein  Contained, 
in  the  Same  Manner,  And  to  all  Intents  &  Purposes  as  other 
our  Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  shou'd  or  ought  to  do 
in  Case  of  your  Absence  imtil  your  Return,  or  in  all  Cases 
untni  our  further  Pleasure  be  known  therein,  And  We  do 
hereby  declare,  Ordain,  and  Appoint  that  You  the  said  George 
Earl  of  Orkney,  shall  and  may  hold.  Execute  &  Enjoy,  the  Office 
and  Place  of  our  Lieut  &  Governor  General  of  otir  said  Col- 
ony &  Dominion  with  all  its  Rights  Members  &  Appurtenan- 
ces whatsoever  together  with  all  &  Singular  the  Powers 
&  Authoritys  hereby  Granted  tmto  you,  for  &  during  our  Will 
&  Pleastire,  Lastly  we  have  revoked  Determin'd  &  made  Void 
And  by  these  Presents  do  revoke  Determine  &  make  Void 
certain  Letters  Patents  Granted  by  her  late  Majesty  Queen 
Anne  imto  you  the  said  George  Earl  of  Orkney  for  the  Gov- 
ernment of  our  said  Colony  &  Dominion  of  Virginia  under  the 
Great  Seal  of  Great  Britain  bearing  Date  at  Westminster 
the  day   of  in   the  Year   of   her   said 

late  Majesty's  Reign  And  every  Clause,  Article  &  thing  there- 
in Contain'd,  In  Witness  whereof  we  have  caused  these  our 
Letters  to  be  made  Patents. 

Witness  Our  Self  at  Westminster  the  day  of 

in  the  first  Year  of  oiu-  Reign. 

And  for  so  doing  this  shall  be  yovir  Warrant  Given  at  our 
Court  at  St.  James  the  15th  day  of  January  1714  in  the  first 
Year  of  our  Reiga. 


THB  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  3 

By  his  Majesty's  Command, 
James  Stanhope. 
To  our  Attorney  or 
Solicitor  Generall 

A  True  Coppy  from  Books  of  the  R*"  Hon"'^  the  Lord 
Carteret's  Office.  Whitehall  28  April  1722 

Danl  Preveran. 

instructions  for  our  right  trusty  &  RIGHT 
WELL  BELOVED  COUSIN  GEORGE  EARL  OF  ORKNEY 
OUR  LIEUTENANT  &  GOVERNOR  GENERAL  OF  OUR 
COLONY   &  DOMINION  OF  VIRGINIA  IN  AMERICA. 

GEORGE    R.       *    J       ,..    *^  ,     r . 

And  m  his  Absence  to  the  Lieutenant  Gover- 
nor or  Commander  in  Chief  of  our  said  Colony 
for  the  time  being,  Given  at  our  Court  at  St 
James's  the  15th  day  of  April  1715  in  the  first 
Year  of  our  Reign. 

1.  With  these  our  Instructions  you  will  receive  our  Com- 
mission under  our  Great  Seal  of  Great  Britain,  Constituting 
you  our  Lieutenant  &  Govemour  General  of  our  Colony  & 
Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America. 

2.  You  are  therefore  to  fit  your  self  with  all  convenient  speed 
&  to  repair  to  our  said  Colony  of  Virginia,  And  being  there 
Arriv'd,  You  are  to  take  upon  you  the  Execution  of  the  Place 
&  Trust  we  have  repos'd  in  You.  And  forthwith  to  Call  to- 
gether the  Members  of  Our  Coimcil  for  Our  Colony  and  Do- 
minion, by  Name,  Viz.  Edmund  Jennings,  Robt.  Carter, 
James  Blair,  Phillip  Ludwell,  John  Lewis,  WiUiam  Byrd,  Will- 
iam Basset,  Nat  Harrison,  Mann  Page,  Dudley  Digges,  Peter 
Beverley  and  John  Robinson  Esq*"*' 

3.  And  You  are  with  due  and  Usual  Solemnity  to  Cause 
our  said  Commission  under  our  great  Seal  of  Great  Britain 
Constituting  You  our  Lieutenant  and  Governor  General  of 
our  said  Colony  &  Dominion,  to  be  read  and  Publish'd  at  the 
said  meeting  of  our  Council. 


4  TIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

4.  Which  being  done  you  shall  yourself  take — and  also  Ad- 
minister unto  each  of  the  Members  of  Our  Councill,  As  well 
the  Oaths  Appointed  by  Act  of  Parliament  to  be  taken  instead 
of  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  And  the  Oath  men- 
tion'd  in  an  Act  pass'd  in  the  Sixth  Year  of  her  late  Majesty's 
Reign  Entituled  An  Act  for  the  Security  of  her  Majesty's 
Person  and  Government  and  of  the  Succession  to  the  Crown 
of  Great  Britain  in  the  Protestant  Line,  as  also  to  make  and 
Subscribe,  &  cause  the  Members  of  otur  Council  to  make  and 
Subscribe  the  Declaration  Mentioned  in  our  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment made  in  the  25tb  Year  of  the  Reign  of  King  Charles  the 
Second,  Entituled,  an  Act  for  Preventing  Dangers  which  may 
happen  from  Popish  Recusants,  And  you  and  every  of  them 
are  likewise  to  take  an  Oath  for  the  due  Execution  of  Your  and 
their  Places  and  Trusts,  as  well  with  regard  to  your  and  their 
equal  and  Impartial  Administration  of  Justice,  and  you  are 
also  to  take  the  Oath  required  to  be  taken  by  Governors  of 
Plantations  to  do  their  Utmost  that  the  Laws  relating  to  the 
Plantations  be  observ'd. 

5.  You  are  forthwith  to  Communicate  unto  our  said  Coun- 
cil Such  &  so  many  of  these  our  Instructions  wherein  their 
Advice  and  Consent  are  Mention 'd  to  be  requisite,  as  likewise 
all  such  others  from  time  to  time  as  you  shall  find  Convenient 
for  our  Ser\dce  to  be  imparted  to  them. 

6.  You  are  to  permit  the  Members  of  our  Said  Council  of 
Virginia,  to  have  and  enjoy  freedom  of  Debate,  and  Vote  in 
all  Affairs  of  Publick  Concern,  that  may  be  Debated  in  Council. 

7.  And  also  by  our  Commission  aforesaid,  we  have  thought 
fitt  to  direct  that  any  three  of  our  Councelors  make  a  Quorum, 
It  is  Nevertheless  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  that  you  do  not  Act 
without  a  Quorum  of  less  than  five  Members  unless  upon  Ex- 
traordinary Emergencies  when  a  greater  Number  cannot  be 
conveniently  had.. 

8.  And  that  we  may  be  always  informed  of  the  Names  & 
Characters  of  Persons  fit  to  Supply  the  Vacancies  that  shall 
happen  in  Our  said  Council,  You  are  to  transmit  unto  us  by 
one  of  our  Principal  Secretarys  of  State  And  to  Otu-  Commis- 
sioners for  Trade  and  Plantations  with  all  Convenient  Speed 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  5 

the  Names  and  Characters  of  Twelve  Persons  Inhabitants  of 
our  said  Colony,  whom  you  shall  esteem  the  best  qualifi'd 
for  that  Trust,  and  so  from  time  to  time  when  any  of  them 
shall  d^^e,  depart  out  of  our  said  Colony,  or  become  otherwise 
vmfit.  You  are  to  Nominate  so  many  others  in  their  Stead, 
that  the  list  of  twelve  Persons  fit  to  Supply  the  said  Vacancys 
may  be  always  Compleat. 

9.  You  are  from  time  to  time  to  send  unto  us  as  aforesaid 
&  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations,  the  Name 
or  Names  and  Quality's  of  any  Member  or  Members  by  you 
put  into  otu-  said  Council,  by  the  first  Conveniency  after 
your  so  doing. 

10.  And  in  the  Choice  and  Nomination  of  the  Members 
of  our  said  Council,  as  also  of  the  Chief  Officers,  Judges,  Assis- 
tants, Justices  and  Sheriffs,  You  are  always  to  take  Care  that 
they  be  Men  of  good  Life  &  well  Affected  to  oiir  Government, 
and  of  Good  Estates,  and  Abilities,  and  not  Necessitous  People, 
or  much  in  debt. 

11.  You  are  neither  to  Augment  nor  diminish  the  Ntunber 
of  our  said  Coimcil  as  it  is  hereby  Established,  Nor  to  Suspend 
any  of  the  Members  thereof  without  good  and  Sufficient  Cause 
nor  without  the  Consent  and  Majority  of  the  said  Council, 
And  in  case  of  Suspension  of  any.  You  are  to  Cause  your  Rea- 
sons for  so  doing,  together  with  the  Charges  and  Proofs,  against 
the  said  Persons,  and  their  Answer  thereunto,  (Unless  you 
have  some  Extraordinary  Reason  to  the  Contrary)  to  be  duly 
enter'd  upon  the  Council  Books,  And  you  are  forthwith  to 
transmit  the  same  together  with  your  Reasons  for  not  Entring 
them  upon  the  Council  Books  (in  Case  you  do  not  Enter 
them)  tmto  us,,  And  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations as  aforesaid. 

12.  You  are  to  Signify  otu-  Pleasure  unto  the  Members 
of  our  said  Council,  that  if  any  of  them  shall  hereafter  absent 
themselves  from  otir  said  Colony,  and  continue  absent  above 
the  Space  of  Twelve  Months  together  without  leave  from  you, 
or  from  the  Commander  in  Chief  for  the  time  being,  first  Ob- 
tain'd  or  shall  remain  absent  for  the  Space  of  Two  Years  or  the 
greater  Part  thereof  Successively  without  our  Leave  given  them 


O  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

tmder  our  Royal  Sign  Manual  their  Place  or  Places  in  our 
said  Council  shall  immediately  thereupon  become  Void,  & 
that  we  will  forthwith  appoint  others  in  their  Stead. 

13.  And  whereas  we  Subscribe  that  Effectual  care  ought  to 
be  taken  to  Oblige  the  Members  of  Our  said  Cotmcil  to  a  due 
Attendance  therein,  in  order  to  prevent  the  many  Inconve- 
niences that  may  happen  from  the  Want  of  a  Quorum  of  the 
Coimcil  to  Transact  Business  as  Occasion  may  require  IT  IS 
OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  that  if  any  of  the  Members  of 
the  said  Council  shall  hereafter  Wilfully  absent  themselves  when 
duly  Summon'd  without  a  just  and  Lawfull  Cause,  And  shall 
persist  therein  after  Admonition,  You  Suspend  the  said  Coim- 
cellors  so  absenting  them  till  Our  further  Pleasure  be  known, 
Giving  us  timely  Notice  thereof.  And  We  hereby  Will  and  re- 
quire you  that  this  our  Royall  Pleasure  be  Signify'd  to  the 
Several  Members  of  oiu:  Coimcil  aforesaid,  and  that  it  be  en- 
ter'd  in  the  Coimcil  Book  of  our  said  Colony  as  a  standing 
Rule. 

14.  You  are  to  observe  in  the  Passing  of  Laws  that  the  Stile 
of  Enacting  the  Same  be  by  the  Governor  Council  &  Assembly 
and  no  other.  You  are  as  much  as  Possible  to  Observe  in  the 
Passing  of  all  Laws  that  whatever  may  be  requisite  upon  each 
different  Matter  be  accordingly  provided  for  by  a  different 
Law  without  intermixing  in  One  &  the  Same  Act  such  things 
as  have  no  Proper  relation  to  each  other.  And  You  are  more 
Especially  to  take  Care  that  no  Clause  or  Clauses  be  Inserted 
in  or  Annext  to  any  Act  which  shall  be  foreign  to  what  the 
Title  of  such  respective  Act  imports,  &  that  no  perpetual 
Clause  be  Part  of  any  Temporary  Law,  and  that  no  Act  what- 
ever be  Suspended,  Alter'd,  Reviv'd,  Confirm'd  or  Repeal'd 
by  General  Words  but  that  the  Title  &  Date  of  such  Act  so 
Suspended,  Alter'd,  Reviv'd  Confirm'd  or  Repealed  be  Par- 
ticularly Mention'd  &  Expressed. 

15.  You  are  also  to  take  Care  that  no  Private  Act  be  pass  'd 
in  which  there  is  not  a  Saving  Us  Our  Heirs  &  Successors  all 
Bodys  Politick  or  Corporate  &  of  all  other  Persons  except 
such  as  are  mention'd  in  the  Act. 


THB  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  7 

16.  And  Whereas  great  Mischief  may  Arise  by  Passing  Bills 
of  an  Unusual  &  Extraordinary  Nature  &  Importance  in  the 
Plantations  which  Bill  remain  in  force  there  from  the  time  of 
Enacting  untill  Our  Pleasure  be  Signify'd  to  the  Contrary, 
We  do  hereby  Will  and  Require  you  not  to  Pass  or  give  Your 
Consent  hereafter  to  any  Bill  or  Bills  in  the  Assembly  of  our 
said  Colony  of  vmusual  and  Extraordinary  Natiu-e  &  Im- 
portance, Wherein  our  Prerogative  or  property  of  our  Subjects 
may  be  prejudiced,  without  having  either  first  Transmitted 
to  us  the  Draught  of  such  a  Bill  or  Bills  and  ovu-  having  Signi- 
mfy'd  our  Royal  Pleasure  or  that  you  take  Care  in  the  Passing 
of  any  Act  of  unusual  and  Extraordinary  Nature  that  there 
be  a  Clause  inserted  therein  Suspending  and  deferring  the  Exe- 
cution thereof  Untill  our  further  Pleasure  be  known  concerning 
the  said  Act  to  the  End  ovir  Prerogative  may  not  Suffer  &  that 
Our  Subjects  may  not  have  reason  to  complain  of  hardships 
put  upon  them  on  the  like  Occasions. 

17.  You  are  to  transmit  Authentick  Copies  of  all  Laws 
Statutes  and  Ordinances  that  are  now  made  and  in  force  which 
have  not  yet  been  sent,  or  which  at  any  time  hereafter  shall  be 
made  or  Enacted  within  our  said  Colony  each  of  them  Seper- 
ately  imder  the  Publick  Seal  unto  Us  &  to  our  Commissioners 
for  Trade  &  Plantations  within  three  Months  or  by  the  first 
Opportunity  after  their  being  Enacted  together  with  —  Du- 
plicates thereof  by  the  next  Conveyance  upon  Pain  of  our 
highest  displeasure  and  of  the  forfeit  of  that  Years  Salary 
Wherein  you  shall  at  any  time  upon  any  Pretence  Whatsoever 
omit  to  send  over  the  said  Laws  Statutes  &  Ordinances  afore- 
said within  the  time  above  limitted  as  also  of  such  other  Pen- 
alty as  we  shall  Please  to  inflict  But  if  it  shall  happen  that 
during  the  time  of  War  No  shipping  shall  come  from  our  said 
Colony  within  three  Months  after  the  Making  such  Laws 
Statutes  and  Ordinances  whereby  the  same  may  be  transmit- 
ted as  aforesaid  then  the  said  Laws  Statutes  &  Ordinances  are 
to  be  transmitted  as  aforesaid  by  the  next  conveyance  after 
the  making  thereof  whenever  it  may  happen  for  our  Appro- 
bation or  disallowance  of  the  same 


8  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

18.  And  Our  further  Will  and  Pleasure  is  That  in  every  Act 
which  shall  be  transmitted  there  be  the  Several  Dates  &  Re- 
spective times  when  the  Same  Pass'd  the  Assembly  The  Council 
and  receiv'd  your  Assent,  And  you  are  to  be  as  Particular  as 
may  be  in  your  Observations  to  be  sent  to  our  Commissioners 
for  Trade  &  Plantations  upon  every  Act,  that  is  to  say  whether 
the  same  is  Introductive  of  a  New  Law  Declaratory  of  a  for- 
mer Law,  or  does  repeal  a  Law  then  before  in  being  and  you  are 
likewise  to  send  to  our  said  Commissioners  the  Reasons  for 
the  Passing  of  such  Law  unless  the  same  do  fully  appear  in 
the  Preamble  of  the  said  Act. 

19.  And  Whereas  it  hath  been  represented  that  the  Taxes 
which  have  been  levied  by  Poll  within  our  said  Colony  have 
been  heavy  and  burthensome  tmto  our  Subjects  there,  You  are 
to  recommend  to  the  General  Assembly  the  Consideration 
and  Settling  such  a  way  for  raising  Money  upon  Necessary 
Occasions  as  shall  be  more  equal  and  Acceptable  to  our  sub- 
jects there  than  the  Method  of  Levying  by  Poll  and  Titheables. 

(to  be  continued.) 


REVOLUTIONARY  PENSION   DECLARATIONS. 


From  the  Records  of  Augusta  County,  Va. 


Contributed  by  Judge  Lyman  Chalkley 


Samuel  Bell. 
On  motion  of  Joseph  Bell  and  Sarah  Bell,  two  of  the  legatees 
of  Samuel  Bell,  dec'd,  it  is  ordered  to  be  certified  to  the  execu- 
tive of  this  Com'th  and  to  the  Register  of  the  land  office  that 
it  appears  to  the  satisfaction  of  this  court  on  the  evidence  of 
the  said  Joseph  Bell  and  Smith  Thompson,  That  the  said  Sam- 
uel Bell  dec'd  entered  the  Virginia  line  on  Continental  estab- 
lishment on  the  8th  March  1777  as  an  ensign  in  Captain  Mc- 
Guire's  company  attached  to  the  i6th  Regt.  commanded  by 
Col.  Wm.  Grayson ;  that  he  was  afterwards  attached  to  Cap. 
Thomas  Bell's   Co.   in  the  same   regt.   was   at   the   battle  of 


REVOLUTIONARY    PENSION  DECLARATIONS.  9 

Brandywine,  Germantown,  Guilford  C.  H.  and  last  at  the 
battle  of  Hot  Water  in  which  he  was  wounded  in  eight  or 
nine  places  and  taken  prisoner.  Was  afterwards  taken  to 
Williamsburg  by  the  enemy  and  paroled  and  continued  in  the 
army  to  the  end  of  the  war  as  an  supernumerary  officer ;  that  he 
died  in  Staunton  in  1788  having  first  made  his  last  will  and 
testament  bearing  date  23  Sep.  1782  and  duly  recorded  in  the 
clerk's  office  of  said  court,  leaving  the  said  Joseph  Bell,  Sarah 
Bell,  Thomas  Bell  and  Jolin  Bell,  his  legatees. 

That  the  said  Thomas  Bell  died  in  the  county  of  Albemarle 
having  first  made  his  last  will  and  testament  bearing  date  9 
May  1797,  recorded  in  Albemarle,  leaving  William  Love  Robert 
Washington  Bell,  Sally  Jefferson  Bell,  and  Wm.  Wells  his  lega- 
tees. 

That  the  said  John  Bell  died  in  County  of  Augusta  leaving 
a  will  dated  11  Feb'y  1797,  recorded  in  Augusta  leaving  said 
Joseph  Bell  residuary  Legatee. 

(Order  Book  39,  April  28,  1823.) 


Joseph  Bell. 
Virginia,  Augusta  County,  towit : 

On  this  30th  day  of  August  1832  personally  appeared  in 
open  court  before  the  justice  of  the  Augusta  County  Court 
now  setting  (Maj.)  Jos.  Bell  a  resident  of  the  County  and 
State  aforesaid,  aged  about  seventy  seven  years  who  being  first 
duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth  on  his  oath  make  the  follow- 
ing declaration,  in  order  to  obtain  the  benefit  of  the  Act  of 
Congress  passed  the  7th  day  of  June  1832. 

That  he  was  born  in  Augusta  County  and  State  of  Virginia 
in  the  month  of  February  1755  as  he  has  always  understood 
and  believes ;  that  there  is  no  record  of  his  age  known  to  him, 
that  he  has  always  resided  and  still  resides  on  the  farm  where 
he  was  born  in  the  said  County  of  Augusta. 

That  as  one  of  the  militia  of  Augusta  County  he  was  drafted 
for  the  protection  of  the  western  frontier  from  the  Indians; 
that  he  rendezvoused  at  Lexington  in  the  County  of  Rocking- 
ham about  the  15th  July,  1776  and  was  attached  to  the  Com- 


10  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

pany  under  the  command  of  Captain  John  Lyle  and  marched 
to  Holston  River  under  Colonel  Russell ;  from  thence  he  march- 
ed to  the  Great  Island  of  Holston  River  and  was  there  placed 
under  the  command  of  Col.  William  Christian ;  from  thence  he 
marched  to  the  Cherokee  Towns  south  west  of  the  Tennessee 
River  and  was  stationed  there  for  some  time  and  returned 
home  about  the  middle  of  December  1776,  being  absent  in  the 
service  about  five  months — that  he  received  no  written  dis- 
charge that  he  knows  of  no  one  living  at  this  time,  except 
Major  Williarriv  Willson  of  said  County  of  Augusta  by  whom 
he  can  prove  the  service  above  set  forth,  that  the  said  Willson 
was  with  him  on  the  said  tour  of  duty. 

He  was  drafted  as  one  of  the  Militia  of  Augusta  County 
for  a  second  tour  of  duty  and  rendezvoused  at  Staunton  in 
Augusta  County  &  State  of  Virginia  on  the  22d  day  of  Sep- 
tember 1777  and  was  placed  under  the  command  of  Captain 
Thomas  Smith  of  the  Augusta  Militia,  and  he  was  elected  as 
first  sergeant  of  the  Company,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
during  the  said  tour  of  duty — from  Staunton  he  marched  to 
the  Little  Levels  in  the  County  of  Greenbrier  in  the  State  of 
Virginia  at  which  point  they  were  joined  by  other  troops  under 
the  commands  of  Col's  Dickenson,  Samuel  McDowell  and  Geo. 
Skeleron.  From  the  little  levels,  they  marched  to  the  mouth 
of  the  Great  Kanawha  river  (Point  Pleasant)  to  join  the  army 
under  the  command  of  Gen'l  Hand,  after  having  remained  for 
some  time  there  the  Army  was  drawn  up,  and  Col.  Sam'l  Mc- 
Dowell rode  along  the  lines  and  proclaimed  that  Gen'l  Burgoine 
the  commander  of  the  British  Army  had  surrendered  the  Army 
under  his  command  as  prisoners  of  war,  and  the  troops  were 
discharged,  and  the  said  applicant  reached  home  with  other 
men  from  Augusta  County  about  the  second  week  in  December 
1777  after  an  absence  in  the  service  of  about  two  months  and 
three  weeks — that  he  received  no  written  discharge — that  he 
has  no  knowldge  at  this  time  of  any  person  living  by  whom  he 
could  prove  this  tour  of  duty. 

That  he  was  ordered  out  on  a  third  tour  of  duty  by  Col. 
Sampson  Mathews,  the  commandant  of  the  Augusta  Militia 


REVOLUTIONARY  PENSION  DECLARATIONS.  11 

for  the  protection  of  the  Western  Frontier  from  the  murders 
of  the  Indians,  that  he  rendezvoused  at  Staunton  in  the  County 
of  Augusta  &  State  of  Virginia  on  the  i6th  day  of  April  1779 
and  was  placed  under  the  command  of  Capt.  James  Trimble  of 
the  Augusta  Militia,  that  applicant  was  appointed  orderly  ser- 
geant of  the  company  and  in  that  capacity  served  during  that 
tour  of  duty,  that  they  marched  from  Staunton  to  Tigers 
Valley  in  he  State  of  Virginia  and  from  thence  to  the  head 
waters  of  Jackson's  River  in  the  State  of  Virginia,  that  after 
his  tour  of  duty  which  was  for  three  months  expired,  he  re- 
turned home  having  received  no  written  discharge  nor  is  there 
any  person  now  living  that  he  knows  of  whose  testimony  he  is 
able  to  procure  to  prove  his  service  on  this  his  third  tour  of 
duty. 

That  he  was  ordered  out  as  one  of  the  militia  of  Augusta 
County  and  rendezvoused  at  Rockfish  Gap  in  the  County  of 
Augusta  for  the  purpose  of  guarding  the  prisoners  taken  at 
the  battle  of  the  Cowpens  by  Gen'l  Morgan,  from  Rockfish  Gap 
he  marched  as  one  of  the  guard  of  said  prisoners  to  the  County 
of  Shenandoah,  and  from  thence  returned  home  being  absent 
in  the  service  about  15  days. 

His  fifth  and  last  service  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  was  as 
an  Ensign  in  the  Militia  of  Augusta  County.  He  rendivouzed 
with  the  troops  called  into  service  from  Augusta  County  at 
Col.  Easoms  (now  Waynesboro  in  the  County  of  Augusta)  on 
the  6th  day  of  June  1781 — and  marched  from  thence  as  an  En- 
sign in  Cap.  Francis  Long's  Company  and  joined  the  troops 
under  the  command  of  Gen'l  Lafayette  at  Col.  Dandridge's  in 

the  County  of  ,  that  he  acted  with  the  Army  under 

the  command  of  Gen'l  Lafayette,  was  in  the  battles  of  Hot 
Water,  under  the  command  of  Col.  Willis,  was  at  the  battle  of 
James  Town  under  the  command  of  Gen'l  Wayne  in  July  1781, 
that  he  continued  with  the  army  and  marched  to  Yorktown 
where  he  continued  in  his  command  as  an  Ensign  until  the  sur- 
render of  Lord  Cornwallis,  shortly  after  which  the  troops  were 
discharged  and  he  returned  to  his  residence  in  Augusta  County 
having  been  absent  in  the  service  about  five  months — tliat  his 


12  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

commission  of  Ensign  was  signed  by  Thomas  Jefferson  while 
Governor  of  Virginia,  that  he  remembers  when  looking  over 
his  papers  some  few  years  since  to  have  seen  it,  but  that  on 
looking  for  it  lately  he  has  not  been  able  to  find  it  and  supposes 
that  it  has  been  destroyed  lost  or  mislaid. 

He  hereby  relinquishes  every  claim  whatever  to  a  pension 
or  annuity  except  the  present,  and  declares  that  his  name  is  not 
on  the  pension  roll  of  the  agency  of  State. 

William  Davis  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  for  Augusta 
County  deposed  in  open  Court  that  he  had  known  Joseph  Bell 
from  about  the  period  of  the  Revolutionary  War  to  the  present 
time,  having  resided  in  the  same  neighborhood  during  that 
time,  the  fact  of  his  having  served  several  tours  of  duty  as  one 
of  the  militia  of  Augusta  County  was  one  of  general  notoriety, 
that  he  has  often  heard  it  spoken  of  by  men  in  the  neighbor- 
hood who  was  in  the  service  with  the  said  Bell,  he  remembers 
particularly  to  have  heard  his  brother  James  Davis  (now  de- 
ceased) speak  of  having  served  three  several  tours  of  duty  with 
the  said  Bell  and  being  one  of  his  mess,  that  he  knows  the  fact 
that  his  brother  James  was  absent  from  home  in  the  service — 
the  said  Davis  father  stated  that  he  had  always  understood  and 
had  no  doubt  but  that  the  said  Bell  did  hold  a  commission  of 
Ensign  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and  served  in  that  capacity 
as  stated  by  him,  that  he  was  at  the  house  of  the  said  Bell  some 
few  years  since  and  the  said  Bell  showed  him  his  commission  of 
Ensign  which  was  signed  by  Thomas  Jefferson  as  Governor  of 
Virginia.  That  he  believes  the  said  Bell  to  be  about  yj  years 
of  age.  That  the  said  Bell  is  a  man  in  whose  statements  every 
reliance  may  be  placed. 

Maj.  William  Willson  of  said  County  of  Augusta  also  ap- 
peared in  open  Court  and  deposed  that  he  was  well  acquainted 
with  the  said  Joseph  Bell  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  that  he 
knows  the  fact  that  the  said  Joseph  Bell  did  serve  the  tour  of 
duty  under  Capt.  John  Lyle  as  set  forth  in  the  said  Bell's  declara- 
tion this  day  presented  to  the  court  and  read  in  his  presence,  that 
he  said  William  was  on  the  said  tour  of  duty  with  the  said  Bell 
which  commenced  in  July  1776  and  terminated  in  December 


REVOLUTIONARY  PBN6ION  DECLARATIONS.  13 

1776,  that  he  heard  of  the  said  Bell's  being  out  on  other  tours 
of  duty  during  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and  entertains  no 
doubt  but  that  he  was,  that  the  said  Bell  is  reputed  and  believed 
in  his  neighborhood  to  have  been  a  soldier  and  officer,  that  the 
said  Bell  has  always  been  regarded  as  a  man  of  strict  veracity 
and  from  his  knowledge  of  him  and  the  character  he  has  always 
sustained  he  would  rely  upon  any  statement  made  by  him,  that 
he  believes  the  said  Bell  to  be  about  yj  years  of  age. 

And  the  said  Court  do  hereby  declare  their  opinion  after  the 
investigation, of  the  matter  and  after  putting  the  interrogatories 
prescribed  by  the  War  Department  that  the  above  named  appli- 
cant was  a  Revolutionary  Soldier  and  officer  and  served  as  he 
states,  and  the  Court  further  certifies  that  they  are  personally 
acquainted  with  the  said  Joseph  Bell  the  applicant  and  William 
Davis  and  William  Willson  whose  testimony  is  above  set  forth ; 
that  they  are  all  residents  of  the  County  of  Augusta  and  State 
of  Virginia  and  highly  respectable  and  credible  and  that  their 
statements  are  entitled  to  full  credit. 


Smith  Thompson. 


State  of  Virginia, 

Augusta  County  towit : 
On  the  24th  day  of  July  1820  personally  appeared'  in  open 
Court  being  a  Court  of  record  for  said  County  Smith  Thompson 
aged  about  seventy-three  years  resident  in  the  said  County, 
who  being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  law  doth  on  his  oath 
declare  that  he  served  in  the  revolutionary  war  as  follows :  that 
he  enlisted  in  Staunton  in  Virginia  on  the  loth  day  of  July 
1777  with  Lieut.  Robert  Kirk  of  the  Company  of  Captain  Gran- 
ville Smith;  that  he  was  then  marched  to  White  Marsh  and 
attached  to  the  i6th  regiment  commanded  by  Colonel  William 
Grayson ;  that  he  was  in  the  battles  of  Monmouth  Court  House, 
Stoney  Point,  Paulus  Hook,  and  at  the  siege  of  Charleston 
where  he  was  captured,  and  that  he  was  afterwards  at  the 
battle  of  Guilford  Court  House,  and  the  capture  of  Comwallis, 
and  that  he  was  discharged  in  the  month  of  June  1780.     He  is 


14  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

now  unable  from  age  and  infirmity  to  follow  his  occupation 
which  is  that  of  a  weaver.  He  has  already  made  a  declaration 
under  the  act  of  Congress  passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March 
1818  which  is  dated  the  i6th  of  July  1819,  his  pension  certificate 

is  dated day  of  October,  1819.     He  further  swears  that 

he  was  a  resident  citizen  of  the  United  States  on  the  i8th  day 
of  March  181 8  and  that  he  has  not  since  that  time  by  gift  sale 
or  in  any  other  manner  disposed  of  his  property  or  any  part 
thereof  with  intent  thereby  so  to  diminish  it  as  to  bring  himself 
within  the  provisions  of  an  Act  of  Congress  entitled  an  act  to 
provide  for  certain  persons  engaged  in  the  land  and  naval  ser- 
vice of  the  United  States  in  the  revolutionary  war  passed  on 
the  1 8th  day  of  March  1818;  and  that  he  has  not  nor  has  any 
person  in  trust  for  him  any  property  or  securities  contracts  or 
debts  due  to  him  nor  has  he  any  income  other  than  what  is 
contained  in  the  schedule  hereto  annexed  and  by  him  sub- 
scribed. He  further  swears  that  the  only  members  of  his  fam- 
ily are  his  wife  aged  about  forty-five  years  who  is  sickly  and 
infirm  and  unable  to  contribute  materially  towards  the  support 
even  of  herself ;  and  a  small  servant  girl  about  eight  years  old 
belonging  to  John  C.  Sowers  of  said  County. 

Schedule. 

One  house  and  lot  in  the  town  of  Staunton  in  which  I  reside 
and  of  which  about  three  hundred  and  fifteen  dollars  of  the 
purchase  money  remains  unpaid,  no  part  of  which  I  am  able 
to  pay. 

Two  walnut  tables. 

6  Windsor  chairs. 

6  leather  bottom  chairs  (old). 

2  Split  bottom  do. 

I  Loom  and  harness. 

I  Quill  wheel  and  swifts. 

I  Clock. 

I  Cow  and  two  calves. 

I  Old  desk. 

I  Bible  and  some  religious  books. 

Debts  due  me  about  ten  dollars  against  which  is  to  be  set  oflF 


RBVOLUTIONART  PENSION  DECLARATIONS.         16 

debts  due  by  me  besides  the  purchase  money  of  the  said  house 
and  lot  upwards  of  $100.00. 

(Signed)     Smith  1  hompson. 

Sworn  to  and  declared  on  the  24th  day  of  July  1820  before 
the  said  Court  of  Augusta  County. 

I,  Erasmus  Stribling,  clerk  of  Augusta  County  Court  do 
hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  oath  and  the  schedule  thereto 
annexed  are  truly  copied  from  the  records  of  said  court  and 
I  do  further  certify  that  it  is  the  opinion  of  the  said  Court  that 
the  total  amount  in  value  of  the  property  exhibited  in  the  afore- 
said schedule  is  seven  hundred  and  seventy  dollars.  In  this 
estimate  the  house  and  lot  are  valued  as  encumbered  with  the 
purchase  money. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  af- 
fixed the  seal  of  the  said  Court  on  the day  of  July  in 

the  year  of  our  Lord  1820. 


James  Burnley. 

State  of  Virginia, 

Augusta  County  towit: 
On  this  29th  day  of  August  1820  personally  appeared  in 
open  Court  being  a  Court  of  record  for  said  County,  James 
Burnley,  aged  about  seventy  years,  resident  in  the  said  county, 
who  being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth  on  his  oath 
declare  that  he  served  in  the  revolutionary  war  as  follows :  that 
he  enlisted  with  Captain  Moses  Hawkins  in  Fluvanna  Va.,  that 
he  marched  under  the  said  Captain  to  Middlebrook  in  New 
Jersey,  from  thence  to  the  White  Plains  and  was  engaged  in 
the  battle  of  Brandywine  in  the  fourteenth  Virginia  regiment 
commanded  by  Colonel  Lewis,  and  was  afterwards  engaged 
at  the  siege  of  Mud  Island,  from  whence  he  went  to  Valley 
Forge  where  the  army  wintered,  he  afterwards  fought  in  the 
battle  of  Monmouth  &  was  discharged  by  the  Dr.  General  as 
being  incapable  of  service.  He  is  now  so  infirm  from  age  that 
he  is  able  to  do  but  very  little  work,  he  has  already  made  a 


10  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  IIAGAZIKB. 

declaration  under  the  act  of  Congress  passed  on  the  i8th  of 
March  1818,  the  date  of  which  declaration  he  does  not  recollect 
his  pension  certificate  is  dated  the  seventh  day  of  January  1819. 
He  further  swears  that  he  was  a  citizen  of  the  United  States 
on  the  1 8th  day  of  March  1818  &  that  he  has  not  since  that  time 
by  gift  sale  or  in  any  other  manner  disposed  of  his  property 
or  any  part  thereof  with  intent  thereby  to  diminish  it  as  to 
bring  himself  within  the  provisions  of  an  act"  of  Congress  en- 
titled an  act  to  provide  for  certain  persons  engaged  in  the  land 
and  naval  service  of  the  United  States,  in  the  revolutionary  war 
passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March  1818  &  that  he  has  not  nor 
has  any  person  in  trust  for  him  any  property  or  securities  con- 
tracts or  debts  due  to  him  nor  has  he  any  income  other  than 
what  is  contained  in  the  schedule  hereto  annexed  &  by  him 
subscribed.  He  further  deposeth  that  the  only  members  of  his 
family  are  himseilf  and  his  wife  who  is  about  50  years  old,  in 
bad  health  and  not  able  to  do  any  work.  He  rents  a  small 
house  with  a  little  lot  containing  less  than  a  quarter  of  an  acre. 
His  circumstances  are  so  destitute  as  to  require  the  assistance 
of  his  Country  for  a  support. 

Schedule  of  the  estate  of  the  said  James  Burnley  necessary 
doathing  and  bedding  excepted. 

2  beds  and  furniture. 

I  set  knives  and  forks. 

I  do  spoons. 

4  chairs. 

I  spade. 

I  mattock. 

Shovel  and  tongs. 

I  pot  rack. 

3  pots. 
I  oven. 

I  frying  pan. 
I  flesh  fork. 
$56.00. 


REVOLUTIONARY    PENSION  DECLARATIONS.  17 

Rent  due  against  the  same  property  $60.00  (7vhich  cUl  the 
property  is  not  worth  the  amount  against  the  same). 

W.    B.    COALTER. 

August  24,  1820. 

his 
James     X     Burnley. 
mark 


William  Francis. 


Augusta  County  to  wit : 

On  this  23  day  of  October  1820  personally  appeared  in  open 
Court  being  a  Court  of  record  for  said  County,  William  Fran- 
cis, aged  about  eighty  years,  who  being  first  duly  sworn 
according  to  law  doth  on  his  oath  make  the  following  declara- 
tion in  order  to  obtain  the  provision  made  by  the  Acts  of  Con- 
gress of  the  i8th  of  March  1818  and  the  first  of  May  1820, 
That  he  the  said  William  Francis  enlisted  for  the  term  of  three 

years  on  the  day  of  in  the  year  1776  in  the 

State  of  Virginia  in  the  Company  commanded  by  Capt'n 
Thomas  Bell  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Grayson  in 
the  line  of  the  State  of  Virginia  on  Continental  establishment, 
that  he  was  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine,  Germanown,  Prince- 
on,  Trenton,  and  that  he  continued  to  serve  in  the  said  corps 

until  the day  of ^779  when  he  was  discharged 

from  the  said  service  at  the  Valley  Forge  in  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  that  he  has  no  other  evidence  now  in  his  power 
except  his  own  oath.  And  in  pursuance  of  the  Act  of  the  first 
of  May  1820  I  do  solemnly  swear  that  I  was  a  resident  citizen 
of  the  United  States,  on  the  i8th  day  of  March  181 8,  and  that 
I  have  not  since  that  time  by  gift  sale  or  in  any  other  manner 
disposed  of  my  property  or  any  part  thereof,  with  intent  there- 
by so  to  diminish  it  as  to  bring  myself  within  the  provisions  of 
an  Act  of  Congress  entitled  "an  Act  to  provide  for  certain  per- 
sons engaged  in  the  land  and  naval  service  of  the  United  States 
in  the  Revolutionary  War"  passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighteen ;  and  that  I  have  not, 
nor  has  any  person  in  trust  for  me,  any  property  or  securities, 


18  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE- 

contracts  or  debts  due  to  me;  nor  have  I  any  income  other 
than  what  is  contained  in  the  schedule  hereto  annexed  and  by 
me  subscribed ;  that  I  am  by  occupation  a  farmer,  but  rendered 
unable  by  age  and  infirmity  to  follow  it;  and  that  my  wife 
whose  age  I  does  not  know  is  unable  to  contribute  towards  my 
support,  and  my  children  who  were  able  to  work  have  left  me. 
Schedule  of  the  property  of  William  Francis. 

1  oven,  I  pot,  and  skillet,  $2.00 

2  knives  and  forks,  2  tea  cups  and  soucers,  .25 
2  chairs,  .25 


$2.50 
his 
William     X     Francis. 
mark 


Alexander  Nelson. 
Virginia,  Augusta  County,  towit: 

On  this  23d  day  of  August  1825  personally  appeared  in  open 
Court  being  a  Court  of  record  for  the  County  aforesaid  in  the 
said  State  of  Virginia  (having  its  proceedings  according  to 
the  course  of  the  common  law,  with  a  jurisdiction  unlimited  in 
point  of  amount,  keeping  a  record  of  their  proceedings  and 
having  the  power  of  Fine  and  Imprisonment)  Alexander  Nel- 
son, resident  in  said  County,  aged  seventy-eight  years,  who 
being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  Law  doth,  on  his  oath,  make 
the  following  declaration,  in  order  to  obtain  the  provision  made 
by  the  Acts  of  Congress  of  the  i8th  March  1818  and  the  ist 
May  1820 :  That  he,  the  said  Alexander  Nelson,  enlisted  for  the 
term  of  eighteen  months,  in  the  Fall  of  the  year  1780  (the 
month  &  day  not  recollected)  in  the  Town  of  Staunton  in  the 
State  of  Virginia,  in  the  Company  commanded  by  Cap.  Laps- 
ley,  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col. (the  Colonel's 

name  not  remembered)  in  the  line  of  the  State  of  Virginia  on 
Continental  establishment :  That  he  was  marched  to  Hillsboro, 
in  North  Carolina,  where  he  was  placed  in  Cap.  Wallace's  Com- 
pany, in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Hawes :  He  was  in 
the  battles  of   Guilford   Court   House,  Camden,  and   Eutaw 


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Springs,  &  at  the  siege  of  Ninety  Six :  He  afterwards  lay  sick, 
for  some  time,  in  the  Hospital  at  Camden,  &  was  subsequently 
marched  with  his  Company  (which  was  commanded  by  Cap. 
Stribling  after  the  battle  of  Guilford,  where  Captain  Wallace 
was  killed)  to  Salisbury  in  North  Carolina,  where,  having 
served  out  his  full  term,  he  was  honorably  discharged,  which 
discharge  he  has  accidentally  lost :  That  he  hereby  relinquishes 
every  claim  whatever  to  a  pension,  except  the  present :  That  his 
name  is  not  on  the  roll  of  any  State,  except  Virginia ;  and  that 
the  following  are  the  reasons  for  not  making  earlier  application 
of  a  pension :  his  unwillingness  to  subsist  on  charity  or  become 
a  burthen  to  the  public,  so  long  as  he  was  able  by  any  and  every 
exertion  to  procure  a  scanty  subsistence  for  himself,  but  his  ad- 
vanced age  and  increasing  infirmities  have  disabled  him  from 
further  pursuit  of  means  necessary  for  a  support. 

And,  in  pursuance  of  the  Act  ist  May  1820,  I  do  solemnly 
swear  that  I  was  a  resident  citizen  of  the  United  States  on  the 
i8th  day  of  March  1818;  &  that  I  have  not  since  that  time,  by 
gift  sale  or  in  any  other  manner,  disposed  of  my  property  or 
any  part  thereof,  with  intent  thereby  so  to  diminish  it  as  to 
bring  myself  within  the  provisions  of  an  Act  of  Congress,  en- 
titled "An  Act  to  provide  for  certain  persons  engaged  in  the 
land  and  naval  service  of  the  United  States  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War"  passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March  1818;  and  that  I 
have  not,  nor  has  any  person  in  trust  for  me  any  property  or 
securities,  contracts  or  debts  due  to  me,  nor  have  I  any  income, 
other  than  what  is  contained  in  the  schedule  hereto  annexed 
and  by  me  subscribed.  That  since  the  i8th  of  March  1818,  the 
following  change  has  been  made  in  my  property:  One  horse 
sold  to  James  Buchanan  for  the  sum  of  Twenty  five  Dollars, 
for  which  I  hold  his  note,  &:  which  is  entered  in  my  schedule, 
the  recovery  of  which  is,  however,  very  doubtful. 

Due  to  me  from  James  Astor,  $100.00 

Due  to  me  from  John  &  James  Brafford  and  Sam'l  Doak,  15.00 
Due  to  me  from  John  Hays,  1.25 

Due  to  me  from  Joshua  Hyden,  2.00 

Due  to  me  from  William  Gilke.son,  1.50 


VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


Due  to  me  from  William  Glendy, 

2.00 

Due  to  me  from  David  Grove, 

2.00 

Due  to  me  from  James  Buchanan, 

25.00 

Shoemakers'  Tools, 

5.00 

I  Trunk, 

3.00 

$156.75 

his 

Alexander 

X 

mark 

Nelson. 

Peter  Mines. 

State  of  Virginia, 

Augusta  County  towit : 
On  this  26th  day  of  June,  1820,  personally  appeared  in  open 
Court  being  a  Court  of  record  for  said  County  Peter  Mines 
aged  about  sixty-nine  years  resident  in  the  said  county  who 
being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  law  doth  on  his  oath  de- 
clare that  he  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  as  follows :  He 
enlisted  with  Capt.  John  Hays  in  the  County  of  Rockbridge  in 
Virginia  on  the  first  day  of  Sept  1777  and  was  marched  in 
Company  to  White  Marsh  and  was  there  attached  to  the  9th 
Virginia  regiment  commanded  by  Col'o  George  Mathews ;  that 
he  was  marched  from  White  Marsh  to  Valley  Forge  from  there 
to  Morristown,  to  Trenton  and  thence  to  Philadelphia,  that  he 
was  in  the  battles  of  Monmouth  Court  H^ouse  and  Guilford 
Court  House  and  that  at  Monmouth  Courthouse  from  severe 
labor  in  erecting  huts  for  winter  quarters  he  was  badly  rup- 
tured, that  he  was  discharged  in  the  month  of  July  1780,  that 
he  is  unable  to  obtain  a  livelihood  by  his  occupation  which  is 
that  of  a  breeches  maker.  He  has  already  made  a  declaration 
nder  the  Act  of  Congress  passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March 
1818  the  date  of  which  declaration  he  does  not  now  recalled, 
his  pension  certificate  is  dated  the  7th  day  of  Jan'y  1819.  He 
solemnly  swears  he  was  a  resident  citizen  of  the  United  States 
on  the  1 8th  day  of  March  18 18  and  that  he  has  not  since  that 
time  by  gift,  sale  or  in  any  other  manner  disposed  of  his  prop- 


REVOLUTIONARY  PENSION  DECLARATIONS.  21 

erty  or  any  part  thereof  with  intent  thereby  so  to  diminish  it  as 
to  bring  himself  within  the  provision  of  an  act  of  Congress 
enitled  an  act  to  provide  for  certain  persons  engaged  in  the 
land  and  naval  service  of  the  United  States  in  the  revolutionary 
war  passed  on  the  i8th  day  of  March  1818,  and  that  he  has  not 
nor  has  any  person  in  trust  for  him  any  property  or  securities 
contracts  or  debts  due  to  him,  nor  has  he  any  property  except 
what  is  included  in  the  schedule  here  unto  annexed.  He  has 
no  family  but  his  wife  an  old  and  infirm  woman  and  a  daughter 
who  contributes  nothing  to  his  support. 

Schedule  of  property 

Two  cows,  three  hogs,  altogether  worth  thirty  dollars. 

his 

Peter    X     Mines. 

mark 


Sworn  to  and  declared  on  the  26th  day  of  June  1820  before 
the  said  Court  of  Augusta  County. 

I,  Erasmus  Stribling,  Clerk  of  Augusta  County  Court  do 
hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  oath  is  truly  copied  from  the 
record  of  said  Court.     In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto 

set  my  hand  and  affixed  the  seal  of  the  said  Court  on  the 

day  of . 

John  Ballard. 
State  of  Virginia, 

Augusta  County,  towit, 

On  this  26th  day  of  June  1820,  personally  appeared  in  open 
court,  being  a  court  of  record  for  the  said  county,  John  Bal- 
lard, aged  about  sixty  years,  resident  in  the  said  County,  who 
being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth  on  his  oath  de- 
clare that  he  served  in  the  revolutionary  war  as  follows :  He  en- 
listed with  Lieuten't  Howard,  in  Loudoun  County,  State  of 
Virginia  and  was  marched  to  Fredericksburg  in  said  State 
where  he  was  attached  to  Captain  Adam  Wallace's  Company, 
&  Col.  Bluford's  regiment.  From  Fredericksburg  he  marched 
with  said  regiment  to  Petersburg,  in  said  State  and  was  en- 
camped near  that  place  during  the  winter.     The  spring  follow- 


22  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

ing  he  marched   with  said  Bluford  to  the  neighborhood  of 
Charleston  in  South  CaroHna,  &  was  afterward  taken  prisoner 
at  said  Bluford's  defeat  at  the  hanging  rock,  where  he  was 
badly  wounded.     He  received  three  cuts  on  the  head,  a  wound 
in  the  side  with  a  bayonet  and  one  of  his  fingers  was  nearly 
cut  off.     He  suffered  very  severely  from  exposure  to  the  in- 
clemencies of  the  weather  whilst  encamped  near  Petersburg. 
He  is  now  entirely  unable  to  do  any  kind  of  work,  in  conse- 
qunence  of  the  injuries  which  he  sustained  while  in  the  service 
of  his  country  aforesaid ;  and  is  so  perfectly  helpless  that  he 
cannot  put  on  or  take  off  his  own  clothes  without  assistance. 
He  has  already  made  a  declaration  under  the  Act  of  Congress 
passed  on  the  i8th  March  1818,  the  date  of  which  declaration 
he  does  not  recollect ;  his  pension  certificate  is  dated  the  8th 
January,  1819.    He  has  been  some  years  in  such  indigent  cir- 
cumstances that  before  he  obtained  his  pension  from  the  United 
States  he  was  a  charge  on  the  County.     And  I  do  solemnly 
swear  that  I  was  a  resident  citizen  of  the  United  States  on  the 
1 8th  day  of  March  18 18,  &  that  I  have  not  since  that  time  by 
gift,  sale,  or  in  any  other  manner  disposed  of  my  property  or 
any  part  thereof  with  intent  thereby  so  to  diminish  it  as  to 
bring  myself  within  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  en- 
titled "An  Act  to  provide  for  certain  persons  engaged  in  the 
land  and  naval  service  of  the  United  States  in  the  revolutionary 
war,  passed  on  he  i8th  day  of  March,  1818,  &  that  I  have  not 
nor  has  any  person  in  trust  for  me,  any  property  or  securities, 
contracts  or  debts  due  to  me ;  nor  have  I  any  income  other  than 
is  contained  in  the  schedule  hereto  annexed,  &  by  me  subscribed. 
The  said  declarant  further  deposeth  that  the  only  members  of 
his  family  are  himself  and  his  wife ;  that  before  he  became  a 
cripple,  his  occupation  was  that  of  a  farmer,  but  he  is  now 
unable  to  pursue  and  does  not  pursue  any  occupation  whatever. 
His  wife  is  aged  about  forty-six  years.     Her  time  is  occupied 
in  attending  to  the  household  duties  &  to  this  declarant,  who, 
from  his  helpless  sitation,  &  the  state  of  his  wounds  requires 
much  attention.     She  is  able  to  contribute  very  little  if  anythmg 
to  the  support  of  this  deponent.     She  expects  to  obtain  some 
small  compensation   for  attending  to  cleaning  the  Episcopal 


REVOLUTIONARY   PENSION  DECLARATIONS.  23 

Church  in  the  town  of  Staunton,  but  that  will  depend  entirely 
upon  the  liberality  of  the  members  of  the  Church  who  may 
choose  to  contribute. 

Schedule  of  the  estate  of  the  said  John  Ballard — necessary 
clothing  and  bedding  excepted. 

I  Bureau. 

I  Chest. 

I  Candlestick. 

6  Chairs. 

1  Cricket. 

2  Small  tables. 

I  Small  old  looking  glass. 

1  Bible  I  prayer  book. 

2  Hymn  books, 

A  few  religious  pamphlets. 

I  pair  smoothing  irons. 

I  Tub. 

I  Flour  barrel. 

I  Copper  tea  kettle. 

I  Hair  broom. 

I  Tub. 

I  Oven. 

I  Skillet. 

I  Tin  Bucket. 

I  Old  salver. 

6  Knives  and  forks. 

I  Coffee  pot. 

I  Tea  pot. 

6  Cups  and  saucers. 

6  Plates. 

3  Table  spoons,  iron. 
3  Pewter  tea  spoons. 

Perhaps  some  other  articles  too  trifling  to  mention. 

his 
John     X     Ballard. 
mark 
Sworn  to  and  declared  on  the  26th  day  of  June  1820  before 
the  said  Court  of  Augusta  County. 


24  virginia  historical  magazinb. 

Thomas  Yorkshire, 

Augusta  County  Court,  July  20,  1831. 

It  is  ordered  to  be  certified  that  it  appear  by  satisfactory  evi- 
dence to  this  Court  that  Thomas  Yorkshire,  aged  about  81  years 
(enHsted  to  serve  three  years)  on  the  19th  day  of  December, 
1776,  under  Captain  John  Syms  of  the  loth  Virginia  Regiment 
and  that  he  served  out  the  three  years  complete  in  the  United 
States  service;  that  afterwards  in  the  year  1780  he  again  en- 
listed in  the  Virginia  service  under  Colonel  Sampson  Mathews 
in  Staunton,  to  serve  during  the  year,  that  he  was  taken  a  pris- 
oner at  Blueford's  defeat  in  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  pa- 
roled and  so  remained  till  the  peace  succeeding  the  Revolu- 
tionary War;  and  that  in  the  year  1792  he  again  enlisted  and 

served  three  years  in  Wayne's  Army — that  about  the  year 

he  placed  in  the  hands  of  Jacob  Kinney,  Esq'r  (then  a  delegate 
from  this  county  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia)  his 
military  land  warrant  to  obtain  a  patent,  and  with  it,  his  dis- 
charge &c,  which  the  said  Kinney  alleged  in  his  life  time  were 
all  lost,  mislaid  or  destroyed. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS. 
For  the  Main  Anny  under  Washington  1778-1779. 


FROM  ORIGINALS   IN   THE  COLLECTION  OF   THE    VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL 
SOCIETY.) 


(continued) 

D.  O.  Paramus  Saterday  Oct'r  9th  1779. 

F.  O.  Major  Stephenson. 

The  whole  Division  to  be  in  Readiness  to  march  tomorrow 
morning  by  the  Left.  The  Gen'l  to  beat  at  8  o'clock  And  the 
Assembly  at  9  o'clock. 

the  Deputy  Q'r  master  Gen'l  will  Call  on  Gen'l  Woodford  this 
Evening  for  instruction  Major  Cabell  will  furnish  Cap't  Booker 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  RECORDS.  2S 

with  the  Non  Comissioned  officers  &  privates  wanting  to  Cora- 
pleat  the  Light  Infantry  &  Col'o  Phebecca's  Return. 
For  police  Captain  Jones 

For  picket  i 

in  G'd  s   I I 

Q'r  G'd  I 


D.  O.  Kakiate,  Sunday  Octr  loth,  1779. 

The  quarter  master  is  to  order  all  the  waggons  able  to  bring 
Forage  to  parade  tomorrow  morning  at  6  Oclock  at  Smiths 
Tavern. 

A  Detachment  of  a  150  men  properly  Officered  are  to  parade 
at  the  Same  time  with  the  Waggons.  Another  party  of  150 
men  properly  Officered  is  to  be  Ready  to  march  at  8  oclock. 

The  Commanding  officers  of  Each  of  these  Detachm'ts  Will 
Call  on  General  Woodford  for  Instructions  This  Evening  or 
Early  in  the  morning. 

No  musket  to  be  Discharged  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Camp 
upon  any  pretence  whatever  without  the  particular  permission 
of  the  Brigadier  or  Officer  Commanding  the  Brigade  not  Only 
the  Officers  Comm'dg  Guards  but  every  other  officer  is  Re- 
quested to  bring  Delinquents  to  punishm't  for  this  unsoldier- 
like  practice. 

Straggleing  &  Distruction  of  the  farmers  property  is  also 
Strictly  forbid  as  we  are  now  in  a  Possition  much  more  Liable 
to  be  Visited  by  the  Enimy,  than  any  we  have  been  in  this  Cam- 
paign. The  Greatest  Vigilents  in  the  Officers  Commanding 
Guards  as  well  as  Strictness  in  the  field  Officers  of  the  Day  is  in- 
dispensiably  necessary.  Gen'l  also  hopes  that  the  Officers  will 
see  the  necessity  of  the  Strictness  of  Diciplain  in  Every  par- 
ticular Instants. 

For  the  late  in  tlie  Season  the  present  prospect  of  aflFairs 
promises  the  most  active  part  of  the  Campaign. 

For  Detachm't  Majors  Clark  &  mitchel. 


26  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  12th,  '79. 

F.  O.  Col'o  Gist. 

The  Forage  masters  to  be  very  carefull  in  Issuing  the  Forage 
and  see  that  no  person  Draws  who  is  not  Entitled  to  it  by  Gen'l 
Orders  &  Regulations  of  Congress 

The  Waggon  masters  to  pay  particular  attention  to  the  man- 
ner of  their  waggoners  feeding  their  Horses  and  see  that  no 
waist  is  Committed 

The  Gen'l  Order  of  the  8th  Instant  Respecting  the  Exercise 
of  the  Troops  to  take  place  immediately. 

two  fatigue  Parties  Consisting  of  a  Sub  Serg't  &  20  men 
Each  to  parade  tomorrow  morning  at  6  oclock  with  proper 
Tools  (for  which  they  will  apply  to  the  Q'r  M.)  The  Officers 
Commanding  these  parties  will  take  their  Order  from  Major 
Cabell. 


D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  13th,  '79. 
F.  O.  Col'o  Gibson. 

The  Subs  picquet  upon  the  Road  Laid'g  to  Generals  Wains 
Camp  to  be  taken  off  and  the  officer  with  one  half  the  men  to 
Go  as  a  patroll  to  Slaughters  landing  to  Remain  there  untill 
the  morning  when  they  are  to  Return  and  the  Officer  to  make 
his  Report  to  Gen'l  Woodford  the  like  patroll  to  be  sent  off 
Every  morning  while  we  Remain  at  this  place  Major  Cabell  will 
Give  the  officer  his  instructions 
For  police  Cap't  Tabb 

S     C     P 

For  piquet i 

For  in  G'd i 

For  Q'r  G'd i 


D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  14th,  '79. 
F.  O.  Colo  Brent 
For  Police  Cap't  Mceleney. 
For  the  day  Adj't  Bound. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  RECORDS.  27 

Head  Q'rs,  West  point,  Octr  8,  '79. 

The  Honourable  they  Congress  on  the  28th  Septem'r  was 
pleased  to  pass  the  following  Resolve — and  his  Excellency  the 
president  adds  that  the  Important  business  in  which  Congress 
have  been  Engaged — has  prevented  an  Earlier  attention  to  the 
Brilliant  action  at  Powlis  hook/ 

Resolved  that  the  Thanks  of  Congress  be  Given  to  Major 
Gen'l  Lord  Sterling  for  the  Juditious  Measures  taken  by  him 
to  forward  the  Enterprise  and  Secure  the  Retreat  of  the  party. 

Resolved  that  the  thanks  of  Congress  be  Given  to  Major  Lee' 
for  the  Remarkable  prudence  address  and  bravery  Displayed 
by  him  in  the  Action  &  that  they  approve  the  Humanity  shown 
by  him  in  Circumstances  prompting  to  Severity  as  Honorable 
to  the  Arms  of  the  United  States  and  Corrospondant  to  the 
Noble  principals  on  which  the  were  assumed. 

Resolved  that  Congress  Entertain  the  higher  Sense  of  the 
Diciplin  and  fortitude  manifested  by  the  Officers  and  Soldiers 
under  the  Comm'd  of  Major  Lee  in  the  march  Action  &  Retreat 
and  while  with  Singular  Satisfaction,  the  acknowledge  the 
Merit  of  these  Gentlemen. 

They  feel  and  additional  pleasure  by  Considering  them  as 
part  of  an  army,  in  which  very  many  brave  officers  and  Soldiers 
have  proved  by  their  Chearfull  performance  of  Every  Duty 
under  Every  Difficulty  that  they  ardently  wish  to  Give  The 
Truly  Glorious  Example  they  now  Receive. 

Resolved  that  Congress  Justly  Esteem  the  Milatarry  Caution 
So  happyly  Combine  with  Daring  Activity  By  Lieu't  McCollas- 
ter  &  Rodolp'  in  Laiding  on  the  forlone  hope — Resolved  that 
a  medal  of  Gold  Emblematical  of  this  affair  be  Struck  under 

>On  July  19,  1779,  an  American  force  under  Major  Henry  Lee  ("Light 
Horse  Harry")  captured  Paulus  Hook,  a  British  fortified  post  on  the 
present  site  of  Jersey  City,  and  captured  159  prisoners. 

*  Henry  Lee  of  Westmoreland  county,  Va.,  (1765-1818),  captain,  maj'jr 
and  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Revolution;  Governor  of  Virginia,  &c., 
and  father  of  Robert  E.  Lee.  He  received  from  Congress  a  gold  medal 
for  the  capture  of  Paulus  Hook. 

'Lieutenant  Archibald  McCallister  of  the  1st  Maryland  regiment,  and 
Lieutenant  Michael  Rudulph  of  Lee's  Light  Dragoons. 


28  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

the  Direction  of  the  board  of  Treasury  and  presented  to  major 
Lee. 

Resolved  that  Brevets  and  the  pay  &  Subsistance  of  Captain 
be  Given  to  Lieu'ts  McCollister  &  Rodolph  Respectively. 

Resolved  that  the  Sum  of  15000  Dollars  be  put  into  the 
hands  of  Major  Lee  to  be  by  him  Distributed  amongst  the  Non- 
commissioned Officers  &  Soldiers  of  the  Detachment  he  Com- 
manded at  the  attack  &  Surprise  of  Powlis  hook  in  Such  man- 
ner as  the  Commander-in-Chief  shall  Direct. 

Resolved  That  the  pay  and  Subsistance  of  Cap't  be  Allowed 
to  Lieu'ts  Gibbens  and  Knox*  the  Officers  who  Laid  on  the 
forlorn  hope  in  the  Late  attack  at  Stoney  point  and  also  to  M'r 
Archer  the  bearer  of  the  Gen'ls  Letter  Volunteer  Aid,  to  Com- 
mence from  the  Date  of  their  Respective  Brevets  Voted  by  Con- 
gress the  26th  of  July  last. 


G.  O.  Head  Quarters,  Oct'r  9th,  '79. 

The  Gen'l  flatters  himself  that  every  Officer  from  a  Con- 
ciousness  of  its  being  his  Duty  and  a  Laudiable  desire  of  being 
well  acquainted  with  the  new  System  of  Regulations,  has  paid 
all  that  Care  and  attention  to  the  Study  of  them  which  import- 
ance of  the  Case  Requires,  but  Least  there  should  be  any,  who 
by  Absence  or  other  Causes  have  not  had  Apertunity  of  per- 
fecting themselves  therein.  He  earnestly  Recommends  the 
Closest  application,  they  will  not  only  Consider  the  Awkward- 
ness of  a  Situation  which  betrays  Ignorance  of  essential  Duty — 
but  the  fatal  Consequences  which  may  Result  from  it  in  a 
Critical  Moment. 

The  Inspector  Gen'l  and  his  assistants  will  have  it  in  charge 
shortly  to  go  into  a  full  Examination  of  an  enquiry  into  these 
matters. 


*  Lieutenant  James  Gibbons,  6th  Pennsylvania  regiment;  afterwards, 
as  Major  James  Gibbons,  long  a  resident  of  Richmond,  Va..  where  he 
died  July  i,  1835.    Lieutenant  George  Knox  was  of  the  2d  Pennsylvania. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  RECORDS.  29 

D.  O.  Kakiate  Tuesday  Oct'r  12th  1779. 

Field  Officer  Major  Meriwether. 

For  police  Cap't  Moody. 

For  the  day  Adj't  Meriwether. 

Head  Quarters,  Oct'r  5th,  '79. 

The  Commander  in  chief  Requests  that  Commanding  Officers 
of  Corps  will  immediately  Call  upon  their  Respective  Officers 
who  are  absent  from  Camp  and  not  Employed  upon  Special 
Commands  or  who  have  not  Obtained  present  furliughs,  on  the 
point  most  primaraty  time  to  Join  their  Corps  without  a  mo- 
ments Delay,  a  Period  may  arrive  in  this  Campaign  and  per- 
haps is  very  near  at  hand  when  the  Absence  of  Officers  unless 
the  have  powerfull  Reasons  for  it  may  fix  Endialiable  Stigmay 
upon  them  this  Consideration  if  motives  of  publick  Duty  are 
not  Sufficient  of  themselves  ought  to  bring  Every  one  under 
the  above  Discription  to  their  Respective  Com'ds. 


Head  Q'rs  Morris  hous  Oct'r  8th,  '79. 

tomorrow  the  Troops  will  begin  to  Exercise  in  the  following 
manner 

2  Regm'ts  by  brigades  will  Exercise  from  9  to  1 1  oclock  in 
the  morning  And  from  3  untill  half  past  4  in  the  afternoon  for 
this  purpose  for  the  Duty  is  to  be  Don  Regimentally  as  far  as 
possiable. 

Each  Regm't  will  form  a  Battallion  as  Compleat  as  possible 
absolutely  not  under  the  number  of  them  first  in  the  ordinance 
Each  Col'o  will  Comm'd  the  battallion  and  will  perform  the 
following  Exercise 

1st  the  Manuel  Exercise 

2d  To  wheel  by  plattoon  to  the  Right  and  Left,  to  march  the 
Regm't  in  the  ordanairy  Step  to  form  it  again  in  the  Same 
place  which  it  has  quitted 

3d  To  advance  in  battallion  in  the  ordanary  Step. 

4th  To  Retire  in  Battalion  in  the  Same  Step 

5th  To  fire  by  plattoons  Division  &  Battalions  Standing 

They  Inspecters  will  assist  in  the  Exercise  and  will  see  that 
noting  is  Done  Contrary  to  the  principal  Establish'd  in  the 
Regulations 


30  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

S       C      P 

For  piquet i 

For  in  G'd 

For  Q'r  G „     . .      . .     2 

D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  15th,  '79. 

F.  O.  Lieu't  Col'o  Ball. 

For  Detachment  Lieu't  Col'o  House  Major  Stephenson. 

Great  Compleaints  are  made  of  the  Soldiers  Plundering  the 
Inhabitants  of  Nights.  The  Officers  Commanding  picquets  are 
to  have  the  Rokds  in  the  Neighbourhood  of  their  Guards  Pa- 
trolled and  to  Confine  Any  Soldier  that  may  be  found  Stragling 
after  Retreat  beat'g  and  Deliver  him  prisoner  to  the  Quarter 
Guard  of  his  Regm't.  The  Commanding  officers  of  Regm'ts 
are  also  Requested  to  have  their  Rolls  Called  Several  times  of  a 
night  and  to  take  Such  other  Efectual  methods  as  may  appear 
to  them  Necessary  to  prevent  this  Shamefull  practice. 

The  Deputy  Quarter  master  Gen'l  has  fixed  upon  a  wood  Of 
the  Left  of  Gen'l  Muhlenbergs  Brigade  from  which  the  whole 
Troops  are  to  be  Supplied  and  no  person  is  to  get  wood  here- 
after at  any  other  place. 

All  the  Waggons  are  to  parade  tomorrow  morning  at  6 
Oclock  to  Go  out  for  Forage  150  Men  properly  Officered  are 
to  march  with  the  Waggons.  Another  party  of  150  men  are  to 
march  at  8  oclock  to  Cover  the  Foragers. 

The  Officers  Commanding  each  of  these  parties  are  to  take 
their  Orders  from  Gen'l  Muhlenberg. 

Colo  Washington"  is  to  send  a  Detachm't  of  Horse  properly 
Officered  to  patroll  in  front  of  the  Foraging  party. 

The  Quarter  masters  are  to  Give  the  necessary  Orders  to 
the  Forage  and  waggon  masters  to  attend  to  the  Loading  their 
waggons  and  when  the  Forage  comes  in,  is  to  order  proportion 
of  it  to  the  Cavalry. 

For  police  Cap't  Armstead. 

For  the  Day  Adj't  Linton. 


*  Lieutenant-colonel  William  A.  Washington,  3d  Dragoons,  a  native 
of  Virginia,  but  afterwards  well  known  as  General  Washington  of  South 
Carolina,  where  he  died  March  6,  1810. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  RECORDS.  31 


For  piquet  

For  in  G'd 

For  Com'd    

For  Q'r  G'd 

For  weeks  Com'd. 


S  C  P 
I 
I 

5 


G.  O.  Head  Quarters,  West  point  Oct'r  13th,  '79. 

As  many  Soldiers  who  have  Lately  Joined  the  Army  have 
not  been  Sufficiently  Taught  the  first  principals  of  the  Exercise, 
The  Troops  will  in  Every  Exercise  in  Detail,  And  the  Officers 
must  take  perticular  Care  in  Instructing  their  Men  the  Exercise 
by  Battallions  to  Continue  Every  morning  as  before. 

Such  Officers  as  are  not  with  Espontoon  are  to  Apply  imme- 
diately Through  their  Brigade  Q'r  M.  to  the  Q'r  M.  G'l  for  a 
Supply. 


D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  T6th,  '79. 
F.  O.  Lieu't  Col'o  House. 

For  Police  Captain . 

For  the  day  Adj't  Mere  wether. 

S     C     P 

For  Piquet   i      .  .      i 

For  in  G'd i 

Q'r  G'd I 

D.  A.  O.  Kakiate  Oct'r  i6th,  '79. 
An  additional  picquet  of  i  Sub  i  Serj't  and  18  privates  to 
mount  at  the  Cross  Roads  upon  our  Right  Where  Lieu't  Porter- 
field  will  Coduct  them — 

The  present  picquet  on  the  Paramus  Road  is  to  be  moved, 
So  as  to  be  half  way  between  the  Meeting  House  and  the  Cross 
Roads.  The  Q.  M.  is  to  See  that  Every  horse  belonging  to 
the  Division  is  Immediately  Removed  to  paster  in  our  Rear — 
And  that  it  may  not  be  again  Necessary  to  Repeat  this  order. 
The  Cavelry  is  also  to  Remove  from  the  front  and  take  quar- 
ters in  the  Rear  agreeable  to  former  Orders.  This  is  not  to  be 
Etelayed  Longer  than  tomorrow  morning. 

For  piquet i  Private. 


32  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

D.  O.  Kakiate,  Sunday,  Oct'r  17th,  '79. 

F.  O.  Lieu't  Col'o  Allison. 

This  being  the  Anniversary  of  the  Convention  of  Saratogue 
it  is  to  be  Selebrated  by  the  discharge  of  13  pieces  of  Cannon  to 
begin  on  the  Right  of  the  Division  at  5  Oclock  This  Evening 
and  to  pass  on  to  the  Left. — Captains  Baytop  &  Shingleton  will 
furnish  themselves  with  the  Number  of  Cartridges  necessary. 
The  Troops  are  to  parade  in  front  of  their  Encampm't  previous 
to  the  fireing  And  when  it  is  over  to  Give  three  Cheers. 

The  Gen'l  is  very  Sorry  it  is  not  in  his  power  to  Order  Some- 
thing for  the  men  to  Drink  upon  this  occasion  But  it  Shall  be 
made  up  when  any  Liquor  Arrives. 

The  Field  Ofiftcer  of  the  day  will  make  the  picquet  acquainted 
with  this  Order  that  they  may  not  be  Alarmed. 

For  police  Cap't  C.  Ewell 

For  the  Day  Adj't  Cary 

(To  be  Continued.) 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  33 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667. 


(Abstracts  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury,  and  copies  in  the  McDonald  and  De 
Jamette  Papers,  Virginia  State  Library.) 


(Continued) 

The  Virginia  Governor  and  Council  to  Lord 

Arlington,  1666. 

(Copy) 

[Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  20— No.  117] 

My  Lord 

Your  most  obliging  Letter  of  the  23d  of  ffebmrary  I 
Receaved  not  till  the  11th  of  July  instant  wherein  two  things 
yo'  Lords* ''P  perticular  recommended  to  my  Care  the  for- 
tefieing  the  Country  and  the  promoteing  of  the  usefull  Com- 
odities  of  silke  hempp  and  Flax  with  the  assureance  of  his 
Ma*'«*  most  gracious  assistance  in  the  later.  Now  my  Lord 
for  the  first  concerning  the  fortefieing  the  Country  wee  resolved 
on  it  long  before  to  our  utmost  possibilety  and  had  designed 
A  Fort  at  James  Towne  in  the  Center  and  Hart  of  the  Coimtrey 
which  would  have  been  defended  easily  and  alternatively  by 
all  the  Inhabitants  But  my  Lord  when  our  monies  and  worke- 
men  were  ready  for  this  most  excellent  worke  the  few  great 
gunns  which  are  but  fourteene  brought  up  at  great  Charges  to  the 
place  wee  know  not  by  what  misinformaton  wee  were  Com- 
manded to  build  this  Fort  in  the  Extreameties  of  the  Province 
in  A  place  useless  as  to  any  Certaintie  of  defence  and  insup- 
porteable  in  the  Charges  of  it  But  the  Command  was  soe 
possetive  wee  durst  not  disobey  it  esi^ecially  hopeing  and 
beleeveing  that  his  Ma"**  just  Armes  had  beene  soe  suo- 
cessfull  against  his  unjust   Enemies   that   wee    should    have 


34  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

aoe  great  necessitie  of  more  Forts  then  what  wee  built 
on  his  Ma*'*'  Command  till  wee  had  been  able  to  in- 
forme  his  Ma*'«  of  the  true  State  of  the  Coimtrey  But 
now  my  Lord  wee  finde  that  all  the  Forts  that  wee  can  build 
though  never  soe  strong  will  not  absolutely  answer  what  they 
are  designed  for  the  Entrance  into  the  Province  is  soe  large 
that  any  Enemy[s]  Shipp  may  ride  out  of  all  possible  dainger 
of  the  greatest  Cannon  in  the  world  and  shipps  may  be  taken 
goeing  out  or  comeing  in  without  all  possible  assistance  from 
us  of  this  my  Lord  wee  had  a  sad  instance  not  two  dales  before 
I  receaved  your  Lords' **?•  Letter  For  a  small  shipp  of  Fo'y  that 
could  not  gett  out  with  the  first  Fleet  which  went  out  thirty 
fower  together  I  stayed  till  I  had  intelligence  of  two  Friggets  in 
New  England  and  then  takeing  his  bond  of  a  thousand'  pounds 
to  goe  home  under  their  Protection  I  gave  him  leave  to  repaire 
to  them  But  within  the  Bay,  lay  A  Caper  with  English  Col- 
ours who  unsuspected  tooke  the  shipp  though  the  men  which 
were  ten  all  escaped. 

This  makes  me  on  my  knees  humbly  to  implore  his  Ma*'" 
that  when  the  next  Fleet  comes  a  Frigget  may  come 
along  with  them  to  guard  those  that  the  wundes  and  stormes 
seperate  when  they  approach  the  harbour  and  wee  doubt  not 
but  the  Marchants  will  joyne  with  us  in  this  Petition  and 
Contribute  something  to  the  Charge  of  it  It  being  soe 
necessary  for  King  and  People. 

For  the  second  my  Lord  wee  were  also  so  intent  upon  silke 
Flax  and  hemp  that  into  the  two  first  wee  have  made  con- 
siderable Progresses  and  as  in  duty  wee  thought  wee  were 
bound  to  offer  the  first  fruites  of  A  new  Rich  commodity  to 
his  Ma*'^  on  the  Publique  Charges  though  wee  were  never 
more  unable  (from  divers  causes)  then  now  Wee  have  pre- 
pared A  present  of  three  hundred  Pounds  of  silke  to  be  sent 
to  his  Ma***  which  is  now  ready  but  wee  dare  not  send  it  till 
wee  heare  farther  what  the  Capers  are  and  their  number  [and 
that  wee  might  be  more  intent  on  these  comodities  soe  Hon  ^'^ 
and  usefull  for  King  and  subject  wee  have  made  and 
Decreed  A  yeare  of  Cessation  from  planting  Tobacco  But 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  35 

my  Lord  that  wee  may  not  arrogate  imtruely  to  much  to 
oiirselves  in  this  particular  Wee  will  Confesse  this  truth  that 
an  absolute  necessitie  puts  us  upon  this  Provident  wisdome 
and  the  quantities  of  our  tobaccoes  soe  great  and  the  price  of 
it  soe  small  that  wee  were  not  able  to  live  by  it  For  the  Mer- 
chants knowing  both  our  necessities  and  the  imconsumeable 
quantities  of  tobacco  wee  had  by  us  gave  us  not  the  twentieth 
part  of  what  they  sold  it  For  in  England,  and  we  can  truly 
avow  that  wee  have  now  made  and  groweing  more 
then  in  humane  probability  will  be  carried  home  in  three 
yeares  ensueing  This  I  say  with  our  desires  to  make  ourselves 
esteemed  for  being  the  Authors  of  richer  and  more  warrantable 
Comodities,  endured  and  enforced  us  to  make  a  Cessation 
for  the  Preservation  of  the  People  which  otherwise  are  in  great 
Dainger  and  wee  Doe  most  humbly  beseech  your  Lords '•'p  that 
wee  on  the  Place  swome  to  promote  the  service  of  his  Ma*'* 
may  be  beleeved  before  any  private  interest  who  understand 
us  not  and  that  this  is  the  sence  of  the  Countrey  these  Gen* 
that  now  assist  me  in  the  greatest  affaires  of  his  Ma*'  •  I  have 
desired  to  attest  this  and  to  subscribe  themselves  as  I  Doe 

Your  Lords'i'P'. 
Virginia,  IS***  July  1666,       Most  Himible  and  obedient  serv'" 
[signed]  William  Berkeley 

Tho :  Ludwell 
Robt  Smith 
Rr:  Bennett 
Thomas  Stegge 
Henry  Corbyn 
Theo:Blande 
[To]  my  L''^  Arlingtom 

[Indorsed] 
13  July  1666.  R.  "Feb. 

Virginia 


S'  W.  Berkley  &  Councell  That  they  designed  a  Fort 
at  James  Towne  in  the  Centre  of  the  Countrybut  were  comanded 
to  erect  one  in  y""  extremitie  of  it,  where  y  ®  greatest  cannon  in 


80  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

y*  world  cannot  defend  our  ships.  That  y  •  merch*'  there  will 
contribute  to  y  •  charge  of  a  Frigat  to  guard  them  if  his  Ma*' 
will  be  pleased  to  send  one.  Have  a  Present  for  his  Ma*'  of 
300  pounds  of  silke,  but  dare  not  send  it  yet  in  regard  of  Capers 
Have  made  good  Progresse  alsoe  in  Hempe  &  Flaxe.  Have 
decreed  a  Cessation  of  planting  Tobacco  for  one  yeare;  y* 
merchts*"  giveing  not  the  20*^  part  of  w*  they  sold  it  for  in 
England;  haveing  now  a  crop  y*  wiU  not  be  carried  away  in 
3  years  to  come. 


A   DESCRIPTION   OP   THE   GOVERNMENT   OP   VIRGINIA. 

(Copy). 

Right  Honorable 

Being  in  obedience  to  your  Lordships  Comands  to 
give  you  a  description  of  the  Govemm*  of  this  place  &  humbly 
supposing  your  Lordship  expects  a  relacion  of  y"  p'"sent  &  not  a 
full  discourse  of  y"  whole  Govemm*  from  y'  first  planting  of 
this  Colony,  which  would  bee  very  hard  to  doe  by  reason  of  y* 
negligence  of  former  times  in  transmitting  anything  of  that 
nature  to  their  successor  I  have  thought  it  necessary  for  y* 
better  performance  of  your  Hono"  Comands  &  Complyance 
with  that  truth  on  which  my  following  discourse  must  bee  grown- 
ded  to  give  your  Lordship  a  short  Character  of  y*  Govemo''  of 
this  Colony  before  I  entd  upon  y*  discription  of  his  Govem- 
m*  I  know  it  to  bee  superflous  to  say  anything  of  his  person 
greate  parts,  or  quallitie  because  your  Lord'^  knowes  &  can 
better  judge  of  them  then  myselfe,  I  shall  therefore  w*'*  your 
Lordships  favor  only  spealve  of  him  as  Goveno''  of  Virginia, 
&  very  hartely  beg  his  pardon  for  y*  Injury  I  doe  his  repu- 
tation &  merritts,  Whilest  my  inabillity  to  prsent  them  in  their 
full  Lusture  may  encline  those  who  know  neither  him  nor  mee 
to  believe  their  defects  to  bee  really  in  themselves,  &  not  in 
him  who  reports  them  &  under  y«  securitie  of  this  Apology  to 
your  Lordship  &  him  I  shall  bee  bould  to  say  that  hee  is  a 
Person  pious  &  exemplarily  sober  in  his  Conversation,  prudent 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  37 

&  Just  in  peace  dilligent  &  valliant  in  Warr  I  shall  strengthen 
three  assertions  only  with  three  argum*'  &  for  y  •  first  shall  only 
say  that  mine  owne  long  experience,  &  y"  stiifrages  of  the 
whole  Coiintry  can  sufficiently  prove  y"  excellency  of  his 
Conversation,  nor  doe  I  think  there  can  be  a  more  convin- 
cing evidence  of  his  Prudence,  and  Justice  Then  that  in  six 
years  after  hee  was  forced  to  resigne  this  Country  to  y  *  Genner- 
all  unhappy  fate  of  our  Nation  (a  Time  when  y»  Enemies  of 
his  Loyalty  &  Virtue  would  have  loaden  him  with  reproaches 
especially  had  they  had  Justice  on  their  side)  there  was  not 
one  man  that  either  publiquely  or  privately  charged  him  with 
Injustice,  or  any  other  fault  comitted  in  eight  years  Govemm* 
&  for  his  dilligence  and  Vallour  y '  frequent  and  greate  hazards 
hee  exposed  his  person  to  in  y»  conquest  of  Opechankevough, 
&  all  his  Indians  (whereby  hee  first  secured  this  Country  from 
those  fears  that  had  possessed  them  from  their  first  seating  & 
rendred  the  Indians  soe  subjected  to  this  Govemm*  that  I  may 
confidently  affirme  y®  Like  Conquest  hath  bin  made  by  noe 
other  English  Govemm*  in  y*  West  Indies  would  have  pro- 
claimed his  Millitary  virtues,  &  have  given  him  a  very  greate 
reputation  for  that  Service  had  it  not  hapned  in  an  Unfortimate 
time  when  the  whole  English  Nation  was  involved  in  a  Civill 
War,  and  consequently  had  all  their  Reflections  divirted  from 
what  hee  did  here  to  what  most  and  more  nerely  concerned 
them  there — ^And  now  my  most  honored  Lord  haveing  given 
you  this  short  Character  of  our  Govemo'  I  shall  proceed  to  as 
short  a  discription  of  his  Govemment  (which  I  soe  tearme  be- 
cause heeis  y*  sole  author  of  the  most  substantial  parts  of  it 
either  for  Lawes,  or  other  Inferiour  institutions)  Which  as 
subordinate  to  that  of  England  is  devided  into  Ecclesiasticall 
Civill  &  Millitary,  for  y"  Ecclesiasticall  parte  of  it  (being  yett 
imfitt  for  a  Bishop  to  reside  here  by  reason  of  the  fewness  of 
our  Ntunbers  &  other  Inconveniences)  Wee  are  subjected  to 
the  Sea  of  London,  &  have  noe  superiour  Clergie  amongst- 
But  when  it  pleaseth  God  to  send  us  any  Ministers  some  par, 
rish  or  other  p'sents  them,  &  the  Govemo'  Inducts  them  But 
with  this  Pious  as  well  as  prudent  care  that  none  bee  admitted 


38  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

to  the  exercise  of  their  functions  who  are  not  in  Ord"  and  very- 
Orthodox  in  their  profession  of  which  excellent  sorte  of  men 
wee  have  at  p'  sent  very  few  amongst  us,  &  I  could  hartely 
wish  that  my  Lord  of  London,  and  other  greate  Cleargymen 
would  take  us  a  little  more  into  their  care  for  our  Better  supply 
since  y*  utmost  of  our  Encouragem**  will  invite  none  to  us 
though  wee  have  very  few  parishes  give  less  then  One  himdred 
pounds  p  Annimi  and  many  give  more  Which  is  Levied  by  y* 
respective  Vestries,  out  of  which  they  yearly  choose  church- 
wardens as  in  England.  And  now  my  most  Honored  Lord 
having  said  thus  much  of  our  church  government,  I  beseech 
you  give  mee  Leave  to  p'"sent  you  w***  as  true  a  narrative  of 
y'  Civill  parte  of  this  Govemm*  without  any  animadversions 
upon  it  which  to  doe  in  the  better  Ord'^  I  must  informe  your 
Hono""  that  this  Colony  is  divided  at  p''sent  into  nineteen  Coim- 
ties,  &  those  subdivided  into  parrishes  only  &  not  into  hundreds, 
or  tythings  which  is  only  necessary  in  more  populous  Countryes 
Every  of  which  Coimties  is  left  to  the  Care  and  Charge '  of 
Eight,  or  Term  Justices  of  the  peace  Whereof  three  or  foure  are 
of  y  •  Quorum  out  of  which  Number  of  Justices  there  is  yearly 
chosen  a  Sheriff  who  is  Confirmed  by  y '  Govemo"'  &  upon  suffi- 
cient Securitie  given  to  y  °  rest  of  the  said  Justices  is  entrusted 
with  y "  Collection  &  payment  of  all  Publiqu^  Leavies,  Quit- 
rents,  secretaryes  &  Clerkes  fees,  and  hath  Tenn  p  cent  allowed 
him  for  Sallery  for  y*  rest  of  his  Authority  it  is  as  in  England 
only  hee  keeps  noe  Court,  and  y*  severall  parrishes  of  Each 
County  are  armed  with  the  authoritie  of  a  Cunstable  chosen 
from  amongst  y*  honestest  household^  &  the  said  Whole  num- 
ber of  Justices,  or  any  foure  of  them  whereof  one  to  bee  of  the 
Quorum  are  by  Commission  from  the  Gouvemo''  made  and  Con- 
stituted a  Court  of  Judicature  for  the  Tryall  of  all  Causes  with- 
in their  respective  Counties,  except  such  as  question  Life,  or 
Member,  &  every  particular  Justice  hath  power  to  try  and 
determine  any  Cause  to  the  vallue  of  Twenty  shillings,  or 
Two  hundred  Pounds  of  Tobacco  which  Power  was  soe  granted 
to  prevent  f rivelous  &  unnecessary  suites  in  y  °  County  Courts 
which  are  held  every  second  month;  &  once  at  least  in  Every 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  39 

year  there  is  a  Court  of  Enquiry  w*^  wee  call  an  Orphans  Court 
held  before  y*  said  Justices  of  the  respective  Countyes  where 
all  Guardians  are  required  to  appeare,  and  bring  their  Orphans 
to  bee  examined  wether  they  are  well  used  and  to  give  an  *ac- 
compt  to  the  said  Justices  of  y»  well,  or  ill  Management  of 
such  Orphans  Estats  as  are  committed  to  their  trust,  &  these 
severall  Courts  are  soe  appoynted  in  the  respective  Counties 
as  any  person  who  may  have  business  in  many  of  them  may 
easely  attend  y*  same  because  they  are  held  neither  on  y* 
same  day,  nor  in  y"  same  month  at  several!  places  from  y" 
Judgm''  of  w*''  Courts  y*  parties  agreeved  may  appeale  to  the 
Gennerall  Court  held  at  James  Citty  on  September,  November, 
and  March  every  yeare  before  y*  Gov  and  Councell  which 
'  Court  is  of  a  mixed  constitution  for  all  Causes  of  what  nature 
or  vallue  soever  they  bee  above  Tenn  Pounds  sterling,  or 
fifteen  hundred  Pounds  of  Tobacco  are  tryed  there  either  in 
Common  Law,  Chancery,  or  Crimiuall  as  Treasons,  Murthers 
Felonyes,  etc.  if  any  Quakers,  or  other  secteryes,  or  Noncon- 
formists act  anything  in  poynt  of  Religion  contrary  to  the 
Statutes  of  England,  or  the  Lawes  of  this  Country  they  are 
tryed  in  that  Court,  y''  Power  of  Peace  &  Warr  is  seated  in  the 
same.  The  Govemo''  and  any  three  of  the  sixteen  Councello'* 
now  residing  here  make  a  Court,  Wherein  as  greate  Care  is 
taken  to  malve  the  Lawes  and  pleadings  upon  them  Easy  & 
obvious  to  every  mans  und'standing  as  in  other  parts.they  doe 
to  keep  them  a  mistery  to  the  People  for  noe  advantage  is 
allowed  to  either  party  from  little  Errors  in  Declarations  or 
Pleas  etc-but  both  are  keept  within  the  just  L>-mmitts  of  ye 
merritts  of  their  Cause  and  Judgm'^  pass  secundum  alegata  et 
probata  &  References  are  rarely  obteyned  but  upon  very  just 
grounds  as  either  sickness  of  the  party  desiring  it,  or  of  y* 
Witnesses,  or  papers  in  England  etc.  from  which  wee  draw 
these  two  greate  advantages,  y'  avoiding  trouble  to  y"  Court, 
and  the  speedy*  dispensation  of  Justice  to  those  who  seeke  it 
from  y*  Judgm''  of  which  Court  any  person  (upon  securitie 


*[sicl 


40  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

given  to  prosecute  it)  may  appele  to  the  Assembly  which 
consists  of  the  Governor,  Councell  &  Two  Burgesses  chosen 
upon  (y*  Governors  Writt)  by  y'  freeholders  of  every 
County,  and  one  for  James  Citty  which  assembly  is  convened 
once  in  Every  year  (and  upon  Emergent  occasions  oftener) 
a  matter  (though  Chargeable)  yett  most  necessary  for  the 
spedier  prevention  of  such  Inconveniences,  or  Confirmation 
of  such  good  Institutions  as  may  be  most  likely  to  obstruct,  or 
advance  y  *  prosperity  of  New  settled  Govemmen*"  there  our 
Lawes  are  enacted  (all  or  most  of  which  I  hope  your  Lord- 
ship hath  seen)  there  are  Leavies  laid  upon  the  People  &  pro- 
portioned to  the  publiq  *  necessity,  and  since  all  fines  imposed 
upon  offend'''  are  here  (if  not  upon  submission  released) 
leavied  to  the  use  of  the  Publiq^  (though  to  the  use  of  the 
Respective  Govemo"  till  S""  W"  Berkeleyes  time,  who  first 
released  them  that  hee  might  keep  his  Reputation  cleere  from 
all  hazards  of  Calumny)  It  is  by  y^  Assembly  orderd  what  they 
shall  bee  imployed  on,  in  fine  it  is  by  this  Excellent  temper  that 
a  Right  understanding  is  keept  between  Govemo''  and  people 
and  that  y*  strings  of  Government  are  always  kept  in  tune. 
And  now  my  ever  hono'^  Lord  haveing  said  this  much  of  y° 
two  first  parts  of  this  Govemm*  I  shall  proceed  to  the  last 
which  is  y°  millitary  parte  of  it,  and  informe  your  Lordship 
that  as  y '  Country  is  devided  into  nineteene  Counties,  soe 
it  is  into  foure  Provinces;  The  first  whereof  which  containes  y^ 
next  adjacent  Coimties  to  the  Gov'  is  under  his  owne  imme- 
diate Conduct,  y  ^  other  three  being  more  remote  are  committed 
to  y  °  Care  of  three  Major  Genneralls  (one  of  whom  Maj''  Genn'U 
Richard  Bennett  I  beleeve  to  bee  of  your  Lordships  family 
both  by  his  Name  &  armes)  Every  Maj'  Genn'll  hath  two 
Adjutants,  and  every  coimty  within  y*  said  Provinces  hath  a 
Regim*  of  ffoot  imder  y'  Command  of  a  Collonell  (who  for  y» 
most  parte  is  one  of  y  °  Councell)  &  other  inf eriour  Officers  & 
in  many  of  them  a  Troop  of  Horse  undbr  y  *•  comand  of  a  Cap- 
taine,  &  other  inferioiir  Officers  which  horse  when  drawne 
together  have  an  officer  appojmted  over  them — Besides  there 
is  a  Captaine  of  y°  fort  by  Commission  from  y*  King,  and  a 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  41 

Captaine  of  y"  Guard  by  Commission  from  y«  Govemo''  as 
all  y  *  other  GflEicers  are  as  from  their  Genn'U  y '  Millitia  of  the 
Coimtry  being  thus  disposed  of  greate  care  is  taken  that  y* 
respective  ofiScers  doe  traine  them,  and  see  their  armes  well  fixed. 
And  truly  my  Lord  I  beleive  all  to  bee  in  soe  good  Ord''  as  an 
Enimy  would  gaine  little  advantage  by  attempting  any- 
thing upon  them,. I  haveing  now  done  w*^  y«  last  parte  of  this 
Govemm*,  I  shall  beg  your  Lordships  patience  whilst  I  write 
a  Word  or  two  of  y  •  articles  betweene  us  and  the  Indians  who 
now-hold  noe  land  but  what  wee  grant  them,  and  if  they  com- 
mitt  any  Offence  against  an  Englishman,  or  hee  against  them 
It  is  tryable  in  our  Courts,  or  before  some  of  our  Magistrates 
but  for  any  Difference  amongst  themselves  it  is  still  left  to  the 
Discision  of  their  owne  Customes.  I  shall  conclude  with  a 
list  of  the  principall  Officers  of  State  in  this  Govemm*  w"**  are 
the  Governor  of  whose  revenue  (being  one  Thousa«d  Poimds 
p  Annu)  I  shall  with  your  Lordships  pardon  say  that  though  in 
the  Infancy  of  this  Colony  it  might  justily  bee  thought  enough 
yett  now  it  is  not  onely  Less  then  any  other  Govemo''  in  the 
West  Indies  receives  but  is  foo  little  for  y  •  Necessary  Supporte 
of  that  State  y«  Gov'  of  this  his  Ma"**  antientest  Colony 
must  keep,  nor  could  our  Govemo''  comporte  v^dth  y*  Grandeur 
of  his  authority  nor  comply  w*''  his  greate  expences  in  setting 
jp  Manufactures,  and  other  excellent  designesfor  y*  good  and 
Example  of  this  Country,  did  not  his  necessities  make  liim 
admirably  Industriotis  on  his  farme  for  ye  improvement  of  his 
Revenue,  wliich  unavoideably  diverts  much  of  that  Care  hee 
otherwise  would  wholy  imploy  for  y"  Publiq*  utilHty  of  this 
Colony.  The  next  Officers  are  y'  Councell  Treasu''  Secretary, 
Cap*  of  y*  ffort  Auditor  Gennerall,  and  Surveyor  Genn'U  be- 
fore y  first  of  the  Two  Last  all  y  Collect© "  of  y"  Two  Shill- 
ings p  hogshead  of  Tobacco,  &  all  Sherriffs,  or  other  receivers 
of  Publiq*  Leavies  appeare  at  James  Citty  twice  in  every 
yeare,  and  perfect  their  accounts  with  him  &  take  out  their 
discharge  from  him  as  out  of  the  Exchequer  in  England  and 
before  y*  Surveyor  Genn'll  once  a  year  appeare  all  Inferiour 
Surveyo"  (who  are  commissionated  by  him)  with  a  booke  of 


42  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

all  y  •  Surveyors  of  Land  by  them  made  to  bee  examined  wether 
they  have  done  right  between  y"  King  &  his  subjects  of  this 
Colony  who  by  an  antient  Indvilgence  of  y*  crowne  have  a 
Right  to  fifty  acres  of  Land  for  every  p'son  they  transport 
into  this  country  w***  transportacon  being  proved  in  any  Court 
of  Record  y"  Gierke  gives  y'  p  ty  claiming  a  certificate  upon 
w*''  y"  surveyor  measures  him  y»  Land,  and  gives  him  a  survey 
und''  his  hand  which  with  y  *  certificate  being  entred  in  y «  Sec- 
retarys  Office  a  pattent  issues  out  for  y*  same  signed  by  y* 
Gov''  &  Sealed  vi^^^y"  Scale  of  y°  Colony,  The  Land  to  be  held 
of  the  King  in  Common  Soccage  at  y «  yearly  rent  of  one  shill- 
ing for  Every  fifty  acres,  &  to  be  seated  in  three  years  after 
y"  date  of  the  pattent,  or  y»  Land  to  bee  Lost.  My  most 
Hone*  Lord  I  have  now  noe  more  to  say  but  to  beseech  your 
hono'  that  if  you  shall  judge  mee  to  have  said  too  much  to 
Consider  that  the  Nature  of  the  subject  would  have  admitted 
much  more,  &  if  your  Lordship  shall  blame  mee  for  being  too 
short  that  you  may  forgive  mee  too,  since  I  am  affraid  your 
other  greate  Imploym*"  will  not  permitt  you  to  peruse  what  I 
have  already  said,  &  shall  therefore  add  noe  more  but  my 
Peticon  for  your  Lordships  pardon  for  my  imperfections,  and 
may  God  for  Ever  bless  you  with  all  the  blessings  of  Heaven 
and  Earth,  &  bless  mee  also  w*"*  a  Continuacon  of  ^'^our  favors 
opon 

My  most  honored  Lord 

You'    Lordships    most    himible    and    HaythfuU 
serv*. 
[signed]  Tho :  Ludwell. 
Virg'  17*  »>  1666. 

(Indorsed] 
Virginia  17*^,  Sep*  '66 

M'  Ludwell,  Secr'y  gives  a  large  yet  modest  character 
of  the  Govemo'  &  Govemem*. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1666-1667.  43 

GovENOR  Berkeley  to  Lord  Arlington,  1637. 
(Copy) 

[Colonial  Papers.  Vol.  21,  No.  55.] 

My  Lord 

I  have  given  your  Lordship  frequent  accotints  of  the 
publique  businesse  of  this  Countrye  But  now  must  beg  leave 
to  write  to  my  Lord  Arlington  not  as  Secretary  of  State  but 
as  to  a  noble  person  who  I  know  as*  seen  in  me  an  infinite  re- 
spect of  his  parts  and  Vertues  this  inclination  of  mine  my  lord 
has  been  mightily  increass'd  by  the  frequent  letters  I  have 
had  from  my  deare  brother  Acknowledging  the  favors  and 
kindnesses  our  family  has  receaved  from  you  and  did  comand 
me  that  I  should  addresse  myselfe  to  your  lordship  when  I 
dard  to  hope  for  a  marque  of  the  Kings  favour  What  shal  I  say 
my  Lord  age  and  misfortunes  has  wilted  my  desires  as  wel  as 
hopes  and  the  truth  is  I  cannot  in  this  time  of  my  very  old  age 
so  wish  myselfe  happy  but  that  I  presently  repent  of  my  de- 
sires to  be  so  the  way  I  proposd:  when  the  time  was  that  I 
could  have  taken  any—,  gust  in  the  favours  of  princes  I  wanted 
the  helpe  of  a  frendly  Angel  to  put  me  into  the  Poole  when  the 
waters  were  made  seasonable  for  hopes  and  powerful  to  heale 
dispayre. 

I  have  donne  the  King  and  his  blessed  father  all  faithful 
service  in  my  station  but  am  as  farr  from  pretending  merit 
to  my  King  as  the  most  pretending  strict  presbiterian  is  from 
(G]odt 

Yet  though  Ambition  comonly  leaves  sober  old  age 
co[v]etuousness  does  not  I  shal  therefore  desire  of  your  Lord- 
ship [t]o  procure  of  his  Matie  the  customes  of  two  hundred 
Hogshead  [o]f  tobb.  I  have  now  sent  home.  I  have  expended 
[mjore  on  the  extraordinary  charges  of  this  warr  I  shal  desire 
my  brother  to  soUicite  your  lordship  for  this  grant  who  is  the 

*[sic] 

tIM.  S.  defective] 


44  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

cause  of  this  bold  request  my  lord  the  great  cause  of  mistakse 
in  this  World,  is  that  we  thinke  every  one  knowes  our  inclina- 
tions and  affections  as  wel  as  we  doe  our  selves  and  that  often 
puts  us  on  unmannerly  petitions  and  if  this  be  of  that  nature 
I  shal  humbly  beg  a  pardon  but  never  cease  to  be  a  thankeful 
acknowledger  of  the  favors  you  have  been  pleased  to  shew 
my  dearest  Brother 

My  lord  I  am  from  my  hart  Your  Lordships  most  humble 
(and  pardon)  most  affectionate  Servant 
June  5'^  1667 

[signed  ]Will  Berkeley. 

[Endorsed] 

Jime  5,  '67  S'  W"  Berkeley  Virginia  desires  of  his  Ma*^ ' 
the  Customes  of  200  Hogsheads  of  Tobacco. 

5*^  June  1667. 

(To  be  Continaed.) 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GBNERAL  COURT.  45 


MINUTES  OF  THE  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT 

1622-1629* 


Prom  thb  Originals  in  the  Library  of  Congress. 


(Continued  from  XX,  157) 


•All  erasares  In  the  original  are  hen  printed  in  italics. 

(pencil  folio  47]  [ink  folio  9] 

November  8th  Sr  Fra :  Wyatt  Gou''no'' 

Peaceable  Sherwood  ( ^)  aged  about  26  yeere  sw[orne 

sayeth,  that  hee  knoweth  of  a  trunk  that  was  broken 

but  was  not  privy  to  the  doing  of  it 

&  sayth  that  hee  saw  certayne  toren  paps    [papers]    swiminj 

do[wne] 

the  river  &  that  M"  Corker  sayd  they  were  y  artic[les] 

&  sa3rth  that  to  his  best  remembrance  the  word  in  the 

first  article  was  (proportionable,  not  equall[y] 

The  2'*  article  hee  doth  acknowledge 

Of  the  3  '**  He  know  sayth  a  booke  was  to  bee  ke[pt] 

but  he  doth  not  remember  that  the  no  act  was  to  be 

entered  into  or  don  w*''out  y**  consent  of  each  other 

If  any  disagreement  were,  they  should  pt  &  a  proppier 

sion  be  made  prop 

There  was  such  bonds  sealed  &  deliuered  but  what 

is  become  of  them  he  knoweth  not 


iPeaceable  Sherwood  was  living  at  James  City,  February  16,  1623; 
but  died  at  "the  plantation  over  the  water,"  before  January  23,  1624-5. 


46  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Touching  the  bond  He  knoweth  not  what  yeares  w[ere 
agreed  on  for  payment,  but  sajrth  he  heard  Mr.  Dr[i 
demand  two  years  And  whereas  though  he  is  be  a  witness  to 
A  bond,  he  did  not  reade  it  ouer. 


[pencil  folio  48]  [ink  folio  10] 

A  Court  held  the  8  of  [November] 
1624  being  present  Sr  Frances 
Wyatt  knight  Gou'nor 

Robert  Poole  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  in  the  Tra[dtng] 
Vioage  wherein  he  was  ymployed  for  Mr  Thresurer 
Pynnace  called  y  *  Elizabeth,  he  gave  for  eve  xxx 
Tubb  bushell  of  Come,  he  bought  of  y » Indyans,  tu  xx 
armes  length  of  some  beads,  and  thirteene  armes  le[ngthl 
of  some  beades  for  Another  Tubb. 

And  further  he  sayeth  y*  he  did  nott  put  away  any  o    [fMr.     } 

Thresurers  beads  for  come  for  his  owne  priv  xx 

vse  no'  any  other  in  y«  shipp  to  his  knowledg 

but  he  sayeth  y*  all  y « shipps  Company  did  truck 

and  trade  for  skins,  butt  where  they  hadd  th 

Truck  he  knoweth  nott. 

further  he  sayeth  y*  Capt  Croshow  gave  for  A  great 
Canoe  w"''  he  bought  10000  of  blew  beades,  sayings 
y'  he  would  give  M'  Thresurer  satisfaction  for  the  beds 

Also  he  sayeth  y*  he  paide  for  matts  20000  of 
blew  beads,  of  wc""  matts  there  was  vsed  to  seele 
ye  shipp  20,  and 

further  he  sayeth  that  he  gave  to  the  great  man  of  potuxsea 
to  be  their  guid  to  pocotonck  6  or  800  of  blue  bead 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  47 

And  saith  y*  hee  did  not  buy  aboue  6  tubbs  of  Co  xxx 
for  any  Copper 

further  he  sayeth  y*  he  did  see  in  A  Cheast  RiC*  xxx 
some  201  of  powder  Knitt  vpp  in  A  Lynnen  C  xxx 
and  Certen  Shott  but  how  much  he  knoweth  no[t] 

further  he  sayeth  y*  he  bought  7  great  beare  skins,  6  xxx 
skins,  2  violdcatt  skins,  9  otter  skins,  2  yonge  beare  skin 
skins  [  [?]  8  or  29  muske  ratts  skins,  1  Lyone  skin  W^ 
Petuxsone  gave  him,  and  y*  brought  home 
noe  black  fox  skin  And  sayeth  y^  Cap*  Crosh[ow] 
[torn  and  faded]  of  skins  as  he  hadd 


[pencil  folio  49]  [ink  folio  11] 

And  further  he  sayeth  y*  he  bought  no  e  [torn]  is 
for  redy  beades  to  be  deliuered  htm  ha 

And  sayeth  y*  at  pocotanck  they  staid  some  23  or  24  [days]  s  in 

hope  the  Indyans  would  have  fumisht  them  wth  Come  [b]ut  one 

weeke 

thereof  was  vnnecessarily  spent  in  seekinge  owte  of  An  English  - 

man  And 
the  M'  affirmeth  ye  same  also 

John  Waltam  [^]  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  ,y*  there  was 
in  ye  ship 

one  full  barrell  of  powder,  anso  neere  201  of  powder  besides 
and  sayeth  y*  Capt  Croshow  carried  ashore  owt  of  the  shipp  2 
murtherers  and  3  Chambers 

Jeremy  Roberts  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  Mr.  Gryme  did 
send  y*  dutchmas  aboorde  and  tett  away  A  mdlett  of  powder 
2  or  3  gallons.  And  further  sayeth  y*  he  tett  200  of  da  xxx 

2John  Walton  was  living  at  Elizabeth  City,  February  16,  1623,  and 
was  returned  as  a  resident  of  the  same  place  in  the  census  of  January, 
1G24-5.  He  was  then  included  in  the  "Muster"  of  Alexander  Mountney, 
was  aged  28  and  came  in  the  Elizabeth  in  1621. 


48  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

fishe  from  M'  Chew  vppon  M'  Threasurers  Accompt, 

Mr  Geyny  had  for  his  owne  vse,  and  Allwyn  dame 
vppon  his  oath  doth  iustifie  the  same,  and  alsoe  y*  M'  Genly] 
Tooke  Away  2  Copper  furnaces  2  bottomes  of  Coppe[r] 
and  3  Covering  of  Copper. 


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[Only  contains  some  meaningles  figures.] 


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The  Testamony  of  M"  Mary  Whittaker  ["]  taken 
before  the  Gouemo'  the  19*''  of  November  1624 

She  affirmeth  that  not  longe  after  Cap*  Martin  cam 
into  James  River,  he  cam  vnto  the  house  of  Cap*  Jabez 
Whittakers  and  amonge  much  other  Discourse  complayned 
y*  he  had  lost  his  Cropp  by  Coming  in  so  late,  y*  said  M" 
Whittakers  Demanded  of  him  why  he  would  com  by  Canada 

sCaptain  Jabez  Whitaker  owned  land  and  resided  on  Southampton 
River,  now  Hampton  Creek.  The  census  of  February  1623  shows  Cap- 
tain "Isaac"  and  Mary  Whitaker  then  living  at  Elizabeth  City. 
"Isaac"  is  evidently  a  misreading  or  misprint  of  "Jabez."  Captain 
Jabez  Whitaker  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1623  and  of 
the  Council  1626.  He  was  probably  the  same  person  as  Rev.  Alexander 
Whitaker's  brother  of  the  same  name.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Bourchier,  an  uncle  of  the  Regicide  (see  this  Magazine  I,  295). 


MINUTES  OP  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  49 

to  w"''  the  said  Ca  Martin  replied  softlie  whispering  in  her 
eare  they  both  beinge  neere  together  This  was  the  last  plotte 
of  the  Company  to  take  away  my  poore  liefe. 


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[torn]  Burrows  gent  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  about 
whitson  mtmday  last  m«  Thomas  Allnut  [*]  meetinge  w*** 
him  Told  this  Exa.  y*  now  he  knew  who  it  was  that 
should  Steele  mara  Buck  [said  y*  was  noe 
noe  smale  one,  but  y*  it  was  A  great  one]  And  further 
this  Exam  sayeth  y*  he  beinge  very  ymporttmate  wth 
Mr  Allnut  to  tell  him  who  it  was,  the  said  Thomas 
Allnut  said  it  was  m'  Sandys  y*  minister,  and  that 
he  had  rather  m'  Richards  should  have  her  then  he 

Elinor  ye  maide  servant  of  Thomas  Allnut  swome  and 

examined  sayeth,  y*  shee  herd  her  m'  and  M'"  say  y* 

M'  Sandys  ye  minister  woulde  steal  away 

Mara  Buck 

stolen  [torn]  and  y*  then  this  Exa:  tolde  her  m'  and  M"     y* 

Francis 

Dunninge  servant  to  Cap*  Mathews,  told  her  that  there  was 

one  of  y*  side  y«  water  would  take  away  a  maide 

from  this  side,  but  named  neyther  of  y*  pties,  where 

vppon  her  M""  and  M"  said  they  could  not  devise  who 

should  take  her  Away,  except  it  should  bee  M"" 

Sandys  y«  minister 

Bridgett  Burrows  y*  wife  of  John  Burrows  gent  swome  & 
examined  saith  y*  uppon  whitsone  Tewsday  in  y  *  mominge 
Mrs  AUnutt  came  vnto  her  and  told  her  y*  now  she 

■*Thomas  Alnutt  and  wife  were  living  at  the  Neck  of  Land,  James 
City,  in  Feb.  1623,  and  at  the  census  of  1024-5  lived  at  the  same  place, 
where  they  were  neighbors  of  the  Burrows  family.  Thomas  Alnutt, 
came  in  the  Gift  and  his  wife  in  the  Marytiold.  It  would  seem  that  this 
statement  of  Alnutt's  charges  against  Sandys  should  precede  the  order  of 
Council  (this  Magazine  XIX,  239)  of  July  12,  1024,  punishing  Alnutt  for 
this  slander. 


5(ut  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

knew  who  it  was,  and  said  y*  was  M'  Sand3rs,  and 
this  Exa:    demandinge  of  Mrs  Alkiutt  how  she  knew 
it,  said  y*  her  maides  Coimtiyman  dwellinge  one 
the  other  side  y '  water,  who  told  her  that  there 
was  A  maide  of  this  side  y*  was  to  be  stolen  away 
by  one  from  the  other  side 


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asked  her  anything  conceminge  [sic]  y*  matter  y» 
Deny  it,  but  y^  anybody  shee  shovild  [torn] 
to  any  bodye  ells,  and  further  this  Exa  say 
this  tyme  M'  Allnut  moved  the  match 
very  Convenient  and  fitt  for  him 

John  Jacksone  swome  and  examed  sayeth  y*  being  [torn] 

his  howse,  Mr.  Burrows,  ye  p'  vost  marshall 

beings  pnt,  vppon  some  report  y*  Mara  B[uck] 

ge  stolen  away,  M'  Burrows  said  y*  he  had  rathe[r  M' 

Richards  should  have  her  then  a  stranger,  or  any  other  [he] 

did  nott  know,  and  therefore  wished  Mr  Richards 

yf  hee  coiild  love  her,  and  shee  him  to  make 

yf  he  could  gett  her  goodwill  to  p'vent  other 

Mr.  Burrows  wisht  it  might  be  Devuldge  abro[ad] 

prevent  any  such  intent  in  others,  foorther  this  xxx 

sayeth  y*  M"  Btirrowes  prayed  her  husband  to  nott 

trouble  himself  for  she  would  look  to  her  so  [not  ?]  being 

stolne  and  beare  y*  blame  yf  shee  were  stolne,  this 

Exa:  fourther  sayeth  y*  walkinge  in  the  Hands  w*'*  M' 

Richards 

asked  him  whether  he  had  any  such  intent  to  mary 

Mara  Buck,  w«^  M'  Richards  vtterly  denied 

Thomas  Allnut  swome  and  Examined,  sayeth  y'  vppon  whit 
Monday  at  night,  M'  Burrows  vppon  the  reporte  of  M[ara] 
Buck  her  stealinge  away,  said  vnto  this  Exa :  y*  hee  [would] 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  51 

rather  M'  Richards  should  have  her  then  one  he  [knew] 
not  and  asked  this  Exa:  yf  hee  were  nott  of  the  s[ame} 
minde,  to  w"*'  he  answered  yes,  and  foorther  Mr  Burr[ows] 
asked  this  Exa:  wiefe  whether  shee  ware  nott  of  y'  sa[mel 
minde  to,  to  whom  she  answered  yes. 

Mrs  AUnut  ye  wiefe  of  Thomas  Allnut  swome  and  examined 

say 

y*  Ellynor  her  maide  did  tell  her,  t*  her  Countrey  wo[man] 

dwelleth  with  Mr  Thresurer  Capt  Mathews  did  tell  her  y* 

there  was  one  [of] 

theire  plantatione  y*  intended  to  steale  Awaye  a  maide 

of  this  side  And  ther  vppon  this  Exa-  suspected  it  was 

Mr  Sandys  y  *  minister,  And  accordinglie  went  to  M»  bourow 

and  Acquainted  her  y'  she  thought  it  was  Mr  Sandys 


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Whereas  Mr  Doctor  Pott  and  Capt  Hamer  were  sent 
to  search  for  certen  of  M'  Tutchins  papers,  Among 
Hamer  happened  vppon  one  wrightinge  W^  Concerned  the 
said  Capt  Hamer  Walter  Davis  and  Edwarde  Tutchine,  w"**  Cap* 
Hamer  beinge  Gardian  to  John  Dauis  brother  to  y*  said 
Walter  Davis  deceased,  tooke  owt  of  the  truncke,  and  p'sent 
heere  in  Coorte,  therby  to  Chalenge  what  should  be  dewe 
from  the  said  Edward  Tutchine,  And  whilst  y »  matter 
was  in  Debatinge  M'  Lamoyne  much  forgettinge  himself  spake 
these  words)  Conceminge  y « taking  away  of  the  said  wrightinge 
that  yf  him  self  should  haue  done  as  much,  perhaps  he  should 
have  kyste  the  whippinge  post,  where  vppon  the  Covut  hath 
Censured  y  *  said  Lamoyne  to  aske  Cap*  Hamer  in  open  Court 
forgiveness  and  to  pay  twenty  pownd  str.  fyne  to  y*  Courte 

John  Swarbrooke  O  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  the  Cowe 
in  controversie  between  Mr  Blany  and  M'  Sharpe 

*No  John  Swarbrook  appears  in  Hotten.     A  John  Swaxbeck  lived  at 
Pasbehaighs  1624-5. 


52  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

was  never  vnder  his  Charge  when  he  kept  Capt  W" 
Powells  Cattle,  w«^  was  about  from  about  A  moneth  after  y* 
massacre  vntill  y  •  Court  next  followinge 

Christopher  Sanford  swome  and  exad  sayeth,  that  y"  Cow  in 

Controversie  as  aforesaid  was  brought  hither  to  this  Hand 

after  y"  massacre  w***  Sr  George  Yardley  Cattle,  and 

was  vnder  this  Exat  Charge  about  nyne  moneths 

and  y*  when  he  delivered  vpp  Sr  George  Yardleys  Cattle 

he  left  that  Cow  amongst  them, 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  M'  Blany  shall  deliu  to  M'  Sharpe  the 
Cow  and  A  Calf  when  proof e  is  made  w"^  is  y*  Calfe 

Yt  is  ordered  yt  Peter  Staff erton  (')  shall  paye  Capt  Peerce 
one  hundred  and  fiftie  pownd  weight  of  merchantable 
Tobacco,  because  he  failed  him  of  seaventeen  barrells  of 
Come  sold  to  him  y«  said  Cap*  Peerce  for  nyntee  pownd 
of  Tobacco  y«  barrell,  and  Doctor  Pott  Testifieth  in  Court 


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Y*  is  ordered  y*  Cap*  Nathaniell  Basse  C)  shall  have  the 
Vse  of  the  lande  late  belonginge  to  George  Grymes  C) 


9"Mr.  Stafferton"  and  wife  were  living  at  James  City  in  1623. 
Peter  StaflFerton  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Elizabeth 
City  in  1639. 

^At  the  Census  of  1624-5  Captain  Nathaniel  Basse,  aged  35,  who 
had  come  in  the  Futherance  in  1622,  lived  at  Basse's  Choice  in  the  present 
Isle  of  Wight  County.  In  1620  and  1621-22  he,  with  his  associates  Sir 
Richard  Worsley,  Bart.,  Jolm  Hobson,  Gent.,  and  Captain  Christopher 
Lawne  agreed  to  transport  100  persons  to  Virginia,  and  received  a  confir- 
mation, their  old  patent  to  be  called  "The  Isle  of  Wight's  plantation." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Warrosquoiacke  March 
1623-4  and  October  1629. 

*George  Grymes  appears  in  the  list,  dated  Feb.  16,  1623,  of  those 
dead  at  the  Neck  of  Land,  since  April  last.  As  Grymes  was  living  when 
this  order  was  made  it  seems  that  the  page  of  the  original  must  be  mis- 
placed. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  53 

at  the  neck  of  lande  vntill  the  said  Capt  Basse 
be  satisfied  the  some  of  Fyf  tie  pound  weight  of  tobac[co 
wch  the  said  George  Grymes  Doth  owe  him  as  by  two 
bills  of  Dept  'duced  in  Courte  Appeereth 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  M'  Horwood  shalbe  heere  at  Courte- 
the  seavententh  of  this  instant  January  To  bringe 
in  his  Answere  to  Capt  Hamers  demands 

John  Southeme  swome  and  Exam'  sayeth,  th*  m' 
Nicholas  Hide  borrowed  of  John  Elysone  (*)  thirty 
shillings  for  one  yeere  for  w"**  this  Examt  standeth 
bonde  and  suartie  for  m'  Hide 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  m'  Jonas  Stogden  shall  take  the  oath 
of  WilHam  Cooke  whether  he  were  acquainted  w*"* 
the  saile  of  three  servant  of  W™  Gaimtlets  to  Cap* 
Tucker,  or  vppon  w*  Conditions  they  were  made 
over  to  Cap*  Tucker. 

Yt  is  ordered  that  Joseph  Johnson  shall  paye  Christopher 
Best  C)  twenty  pounds  weight  of  Tobacco  for  the  Dept 
of  Rowland  loftis  or  otherwyde  y*  he  appeare  heere 
at  the  Coimsell  Table  one  mondye  next  to  shew 
Cause  to  the  Contrarye 

Whereas  Cap*  Bass  bought  A  Sow  of  Abraham 

Porter  (")  for  forty  pounds  waight  of  principall  good  Tobacco 

M'  Humphrey  Rastell  swome  and  exam'  sayeth  that 
Capt  Bass  did  p'mise  payment  of  princypall 
good  Tobacco  as  y  *  said  Abraham  required 


•John  Ellison  who  came  in  the  Prosperous  and  his  wife  Ellin  who 
came  in  the  Charltie  were  living  at  Archer's  Hope  1624-5. 

'"Christopher  Best  was  living  at  James  City  1623. 

"Abraham  Porter,  aged  36,  is  included  by  Hotten  as  among  the  ser- 
vants of  Peter  Longman  at  James  City  in  1624-5.  If  Hotten  is  correct, 
this  order  shows  that  servants  could  hold  property  beyond  their  neces- 
sary clothes. 


54  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Yt  is  ordered  that  Robert  Chambley  for  his  Contempt 
in  not  provinge  in  A  Jury  beinge  lawfully  warned 
by  the  Provost  Marshall  shall  pay  twenty  pound 
waight  of  good  merchantable  Tobacco 
Ytis 


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Whereas  John  Powell  in  the  behalf  e  of  himself  John  Woo  [xxx] 
Williams  brought  into  this  countie,  one  Covenant  made  by 
Richarde  als  Sheparde  bearinge  date  the  first  of  Novembe 
by  w"**  Covenant  they  were  to  pay  to  Mr  Danell  Gookin  or  hi 
A  Certen  some  of  Tobacco,  as  also  to  deliver  divers  men  &  go 
as  by  the  Covenant  it  doth  and  may  farther  Appeere,  And  for 
as  y  •  said  Richarde  als  Sheparde  is  departed  owt  of  This  Co 
and  hath  left  noe  Certen  Attorney  to  receave  the  said  Tobacco 
me 

and  goodes,  nor  other  order  as  yett  Taken  by  Mr  Gookin,  Th 
Gou'emor  and  Coxmsell  takinge  into  Theire  Consideracon  y*  the 
said 

Mr  Gookine  may  not  be  dampnified  by  the  nechgenc  of  his 
officer 

have  appoynted  Cap*  W™  Tucker,  to  take  and  receave  into  his 
Custody  and  Care,  not  only  the  Tobacco  and  Come  dew  by  th 
Covenant  w**'  Charge  to  see  y*  Tobacco  be  of  the  best  y*  grew 
that  Cropp,  and  that  non  of  the  said  Cropp  be  otherwise  disp 
of  till  the  said  Choyse  be  made,  But  also  the  Plantacione 
servant  Cattell  and  other  goods  thervnto  beloanginge  And 
in  the  said  Covenant  specyfied,  And  y*  the  said  Cap*  Tucker 
vppon  the  receipte  of  the  before  expressesd  p'mises  do  putt 
in  bound  w*''  Sufficyent  suerties  to  y*  Gouemor  and  Cotmsell 
to  be  at  all  tymes  Answerable  to  the  said  Daniell  Gookine 
or  his  Assignes  Conceminge  the  premises,  at  or  before  y* 

daye  of  January  now  next  ensuinge. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  56 

Richard  Smith  servant  to  Mr.  Robert  Addams  C^)  swome  and 

Examined 

sayeth  y*  to  his  knowledge  his  m'  did  never  gather  any  of  m' 

Horwoods  Come,  nor  that  his  said  Mr  did  euer  bid  him 

to  gather  any  of  Mr.  Horwoods  Come. 

Robert  Addams  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  James  Davis 
made  A  Bargaine  w***  M'  Emersone  (*'),  That  in  regarde 
m'.  Emersone  was  to  free  y "  said  James  Davis  of  his 
service,  he  was  to  give  the  said  Mr.  Emersone 
one  servant  boy  and  a  Cowe. 


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Whereas  Anna  Cooper  Complayned  in  Coorte  by  [torn]  tion 
yt  her  late  husband  James  Harisone  C*)  ^'^  lend  a  shallopp 
to  Liv*  George  Harisone  late  deceased,  w*''  boate  the 
saide  Anna  Cooper  often  demanded  of  the  said  Li-vt 
Harysone,  but  could  never  gett  the  same  or  Satisfacto"  for  it 


i2Robert  Addams  who  came  in  the  Bona  Nova,  was  living  at  Martins 
Hundred  in  Feb.  1624,  Mr.  William  Harwood  (or  Horwood)  also  lived  at 
Martin's  Hundred  in  1624  and  had  six  servants.  He  was  appointed  to 
the  Council  in  1620  and  in  the  next  year  Commander  of  Martin's  Hun- 
dred. 

i3ln  1624-5  John  Davies,  who  came  in  the  George  in  1617  and  William 
Emerson,  "his  p'tner,"  who  came  Ln  the  Sampson  in  1618,  were  living  at 
Jordan's  Journey. 

'••In  Feb.  1624  Ellis  Emerson,  Ann  his  wife  and  Thomas  his  son, 
aged  11,  all  of  whom  came  in  the  George  in  1623,  were  living  at  Martin's 
Brandon.  Alice  and  Robert  Emerson,  children  of  "Mr.  Emerson,"  had 
died  in  1623. 

'"No  details  regarding  Ensign  James  Harrison  appear  in  the  old 
records.  Lieutenant  George  Harrison  was  brother  of  Sir  John  Harrison 
of  London;  was  granted  a  tract  of  land  near  Chippoaks  Creek  on  the 
south  side  of  James  River  March  6,  1620-21,  fought  what  was  probably 
the  first  duel  in  Virginia  in  the  Spring  of  1624,  and  died  shortly  after- 
wards.    See  Brown's  Genesis,  11.  913. 


56  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Uppon  the  Testimony  of  Capt  Hamer,  that  Ensigne  Harisone 

did  lend  the  said  shallopp  to  Liv*  George  Harisone 

And  vppon  the  Testimony  of  Cap*  Tucker,  y*  he  demanded 

the  saide  shallop  of  Liv*  Harisone  in  the  Right  of 

the  saide  Aima  Cooper. 

It  is  in  Courte  ordered  that  George  Menefrey 

Administrator  for  y  *  saide  Liv*  George  Harisone 

shall  presently  paye  to  the  saide  Anna  Cooper  in 

Satisfaction  for  the  said  shallop  some  of 

one  himdred  pound  weight  of  marchantable  Tobacco 

Cap*  Raphe  Hamer  Coimsellor  of  State  swome  &  examined 
sayeth,  that  beinge  in  Conference  w*''  Cap*  Martyn  about 
the  Gouemor,  Cap*  Martyn  said  to  this  Examinat,  that 
yf  the  Gouemor  when  the  date  of  his  three  years  was 
ower,  would  goveme  for  the  kinge,  he  would  rather  he 
were  Governor  than  any  man  else,  But  yf  he  governed 
for  the  Company,  he  would  nott  allow  him  to  be  Governor 
Then  this  Exa'  made  answer,  that  hee  thought  ye  Go'uno' 
all  way  se  governed  for  the  Kinge,  for  in  all  things  he  governed 
Accordinge  to  the  ICings  lawes. 

Cap*  Roger  Smith  Counsellor  of  State  swome  and  Examined 
sayeth,  y*  Cap*  Martyn  being  at  supper  with  this  deponents 
sister  and  himself,  Falinge  in  talke  about  Virginia,  he 
showed  some  Virginia  dyamonds  w*'^  some  other  thing  amongst 
the  rest  there  was  A  peece  of  Cristall,  and  beinge  demanded 
from  whence  he  had  it.  Cap*  Martyn  saide  ther  was  A 
rock  of  Christall  fownd  in  Virginia,  And  this  Examinat 
said  y*  in  his  tyme  beinge  in  Virginia  he  never  knew 
of  Any,  Then  Cap*  Martyn  said  y*  when  he  cam  to 
Virginia  y*  this  deponent  should  see  him  have  A  chrisoll 
mantle  Tree 


[pages  69  to  72  printed  (misnumbered  47  to  50)  in 
January,  1912.] 


MINUTES  jOP  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  57 

[pencil  75]  [ink  37] 

A  Courte  held  the  laste  daye  of  November,  1624 
Present  Sr  Francis  Wyatt  Knight  &c  Cap*  Francis 
West  Sr  George  Yardley  M.  Threasurer,  Doctor 
Pott,  Cap*  Smith,  Cap*  Hamer. 

Hughe  Hayward  C^)  and  Robert  Fitt  swome  and  examined 

say,  that 

they  were  p'sent  when  Thomas  Harralde  made  his  will  and  that 

they  both  were  wittnesses  to  the  same,  and  y*  this  will  brought 

into  the  Courte  by  M""  RichardeKingsmell  is  the  same  will 

and  that  he  was  in  p'fect  memory  when  he  made  the  same,  and 

lived  about  a  month  after,  but  made  no  later  will  that  they 

know  of. 

Silvester  Bvillen  swome  and  exa  sayeth  that  John 

Dayns  did  Carye  Certen  Tymber  for  Cap*  Tho :  Barwick 

to  his  house,  for  W^  he  p''mised  him  some  Tobacco  but 

how  much  he  knoweth  nott. 

It  is  ordered  y*  whereas  Thomas  Sulley  hath  broken  y»  Saboth 

daye  in  goinge  A  huntinge,  as  by  M""  Richard  Kingsmell 

hath  been  Complayned  one  in  Coorte,  That  he  shall  paye 

five  pownd  sterlinge  in  good  Tobacco  Towards  the  Church 

Charge,  and  acknowledge  his  falte  in  the  Church  before  the 

Congregatione 

Thomas  Gates  swome  and  examined  sayeth,  that  he  Cominge  to 

John  Jacksone  to  demande  76  pownd  of  Tobacco,  y  ^  same 

Jacksonne  went  w***  him  to  George  Clarke,  and  Caled  y* 

said  George  Clarke  and  told  him  that  this  is  the  man  y* 

this  is  the  must  make  your  house  Tyte  and  yf  you  will 

pay  him  y '  76  pownd  of  Tobacco  I  will  giue  you  an  Acquittal 

'  *Hugh  Haward,  who  came  in  the  Starr  and  his  wife  Susan,  who  came 
in  the  George,  were  living  at  Pashbehaighs  in  January  1624. 

Robert  Fitt,  who  came  in  the  George  and  his  wife  Ann,  who  came 
in  the  Abigail,  lived  on  James  City  Island  1624-5. 

Silvester  Buller,  aged  28,  was  then  a  servant  of  Richard  Tree  at 
James  City. 

Thomas  Gates,  who  came  in  the  Swan  in  1609,  was  living  in  1624-5 
at  Pace's  Paines  on  the  south  side  of  the  river  near  Jamestown.  George 
Clarke  died  at  James  City  in  1623-4. 


58  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

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It  is  ordered  at  this  Courts,  That  Capt  Martyn  shall  paye 
to  Mr  Humphrie  Rastell  960  pound  weight  of  good  merchantable 
Tobacco  such  as  shalbe  valued  woorth  ijs  the  pownde  at  or 
before  ihe  xxth  daye  of  December  now  next  ensuinge  at  James 
Cyttie  And  that  yf  the  said  Capt  John  Martyn  do  fayle 
in  payment  of  the  said  Tobacco  in  pte  or  in  the  whole,  in 
and  vppon  the  aforesaid  That  then  Capt  Martyn  shall 
forfeyt  ye  600  pound  weight  of  Tobacco  allowed  him 
by  the  Coorte. 

And  that  vppon  the  payment  of  the  said  960  pound  waight 
of  Tobacco  the  said  Capt  Martyn  and  Mr.  Rastell  shall 
scale  Release  eyther  to  other  concerninge  this  business 

Wheras  Cap*  John  Martyn  by  Covenant  vnder  his  hande  and 

seale 

ys  to  paye  M'  Humfrey  Rastell  for  Transportinge  of  him  self  and 

twelve  men  and  Certen  goods,  the  some  of  two  hundred,  twenty 

and  eight  pownd  ster  as  Tobacco  shalbe  woorth  heere  in  redy 

money 

Yt  is  ordered  that  there  be  abated  for  five  men  w***  should  have 

been  Transported  and  were  nott,  as  also  for  theire  victualls 

sixtie 

pownde  sterling. 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  there  be  six  hundred  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco 

allowed  Cap*.  John  Martyn,  for  wrongs  and  damages  in 

Caryinge 

him  to  Canada  and  detayninge  him  there,  wherby  he  Arived 

soe  late 

in  Virginia  w*''  six  hundred  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco  at  two 

shillings  the  pownde  Cometh  to  sixtie  pownde  ste'  (The 

Remander  beinge  one  thousande  hundred  and  fowerscore  eight 

pownde 

waight  ster,  Cap*  Martyn  ys  to  paye  in  such  Tobacco  as 

shalbe  worth  heere  two  shillings  A  pownde  (wch  will 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  59 

Amounte  to  one  thowsand  and  fowerscore  pownd  of  Tobacco 
w'**  Cap*  Martin  is  to  paye  to  M'  Htiinfrey  Rastell  Exer 
Admr  or  assignes  at  or  before  the  twentieth  daye  of  December 
now  next  Ensuinge  in  James  Cyttle  (And  that  yf  ye  saide 
Cap*  Martyn  do  fayle  in  payinge  of  the  said  one  Thowsand 
and  fowerscore  pownd  of  Tobacco  in  pte  or  in  the  whole  at 
or  before  the  days  aforesaid,  That  then  Cap*  Martyn  shall 
forfect  the  six  hundred  pownd  of  Tobacco  allowed  him  for 
wronge  and  damages  as  aforesaid 

And  that  vppon  the  Payment  of  ye  saide  one  Thowsand  and 
fowerscore  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco,  The  said  Cap*  Martyn 
and  M'.  Himifrey  Rastell  shall  scale  Release  e3rther  to  other 
for  and  Conceminge  this  Business. 


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John  Phillip  A  negro  Christened  in  England  12  years  since 

swome  & 

exam  sayeth,  y*  beinge  in  a  shipp  w***  Sr  Arthur  Henry  Maner- 

inge  they  tooke 

A  ship  Spanish  shipp  aboute  Cape  Set  Mary  and  Caryed  her  to 

mamora 

in  w'''  shipp  was  A  spanishe  ladye  and  divers  other,  Arid  beinge 

inMam'a 

m'  Symon  Tuchinge  Cam  into  Mamora  in  a  smale  shipp,  and 

after 

some  Conference  had  by  y*  said  Tuckinge  w'**  Spaniards  taken 

as 

aforesaid,  he  was  by  them  ymployed  in  y  *  said  smale  shipp  to 

Lisbone 

to  feach  money  for  the  Ransominge  of  the  said  lady  w'**  Accord- 

inglie  he  p'formed. 

Edward  Pepprett  sv\'ome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  Symon  Tuch- 

ing  told  this  deponent 

him  before  divers  other  of  the  shipps  Company  thar  he  was  the 

saide 


60  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Tutchinge  was  banished  owt  of  England  and  Ireland,  sa)dnge 
I  Come  of  A  good  kindred,  I  dare  nott  shew  my  face  wher  I 
was  bonie,  I  care  nott  yf  all  my  kindred  were  hanged,  and  doth 
Cale  the  p'testant  Lutherans,  And  ftirther  sayeth  y*  saide 
Tutchine  hath  been  very  dilligent  in  soimdings  of  this  River 
as  also  in  enqueringe  after  the  Chanells  of  other  Rivers  w*''in 
the  baye  And  further  he  sayeth  that  Tutchinge  doth  give  owt 
and  intend  at  his  retume  to  Tuch  at  the  Westeme  Hands  and 
refresh  his  men 

George  Rugless  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  the  said 

Tuchinge 

reported  of  himselfe  y*  he  was  a  banished  man  owt  of  England 

and 

sayeth  y*  he  was  very  well  acquainted  and  respected  in  y « Made- 

ras 

and  hath  said  of  his  kindred  (y*  they  did  not  care  for  him,  nor  he 

for  them,  And  he  cared  not  yf  his  freends  were  all  hanged 

and  jrt  yf  occasione  were,  he  would  Tuch  at  the  Wester  Hands 

Maderas  as  he  reto'. 

John  Lamoyne  marchant  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  M' 

Tuchinge 

did  tell  This  Examinate  that  he  was  a  banished  man  owt  of  Ire- 

lande. 


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William  Emersone  swome  and  Ex^  sayeth,  that  at  Christmas 
last  past  this  Examt'  and  John  Davis,  Did  give  to  William 
Liv*  Gibbs  for  A  man  servant  named  w™  Popleton,  for 
two  yeers,  three  hundred  pownd  waight  of  tobacco  wch 
Tobacco  was  presently  paid  to  Liv*  Gibbs. 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  y » like  Lre  of  Administ'  be  granted  to  John 
Bush  as  hath  been  formerly  granted  to  mr.  George  Keth 
And  that  he  bringe  two  SufiBcyent  men  to  stande  bound 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURt.  61 

w*^  him  the  trew  pformance  of  the  said  Administra*  And 
to  be  heere  one  mondaye  next  Com  fortnight  to  pforme 
this  order,  at  W^  time  or  before  Mr.  Keth  is  to 
bringe  in  A  trew  Accompt  of  the  Estate  of  y«  O'phant 

[At  the  end  of  this  page  and  the  beginning  of  the  next,  are 
depositions  in  regard  to  the  attempt  made  by  the  drunken 
master  of  the  ship  Ambrose  then  lying  in  James  River,  to 
commit  an  vmnatural  crime  with  one  of  the  crew.  The  details 
are  unprintable,  even  as  part  of  an  ancient  record.] 


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Mr  William  Cleyboume  sayeth  y*  he  was  in  place 

when  M''  Threasurer  did  say  he  had  frely  forgeeve  Marten 

Turner  two  yeers  serNdce  of  his  7  yeers 

w'ch  he  was  to  serve  him.     A,nd  Marten  Turner 

did  not  contradict  it.     And  y*  howe  Marten  had 

but  five  yeeres  to  serve,  w*=^  the  said  Marten 

beinge  presesnt  did  not  gaine  say. 

Wheras  the  Counsell  the  half  doth  Chalenge  for  them  selves  and 
the  Publique  officers  of  the  Colonic  the  moytie  of  y*  Companys 
rente,  as  Appeereth  by  theire  great  Charter  of  laws  and 

prders  dated  [sic] And  since  it  is 

a  thinge  y*  was  never  heertofore  payed  Nor  by  the  Treasurers 
Commissione  as  he  Conceaveth,  he  is  Awthorized  to  pay  it.  He 
therefore  doth  Peticion  the  Court,  That  it  may  be  referred 
to  A  nisi  pryus,  wherin  neyther  pte  shalbe  interested 
Yt  is  ordered  yt  one  Tcusday  Wensday  Com  senight  the  xvth 
of  this  december  next  (sic)  be  a  Jury  warned  of  discreet 
A  Sufficyent  men  Consistinge  of  18  psones  in  number 
to  decide  the  forsaid  Questione 


62  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

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Wheras  Cap*  Hamer  Compleyned  in  Courte  for  y  *  recovery 
of  A  Debt  of  250  waight  of  Tobacco  Dew  to  be  paide 
by  Ensigne  James  Harrisone  Deceased  and  David  Baily 
and  John  Costarde  I'wise  Deceased  as  p*ners  together 
for  as  much  as  noe  prooff e  was  made  of  their  p*nershipp 
and  for  y*  it  Did  appeare  by  two  servants  that  were  only 
left  alive,  That  they  did  proply  belong  to  the  saide 
James  Harisone,\as  by  deposition  of  the  said  servant 
appearath  y*  is  therefore  ordered  y*  Anna  Cooper  late 
wiefe  to  the  said  James  Harisone  doe  onely  Satisfie  the 
pper  depts  dew  by  the  said  James  Harrisone 

The  Depositions  of  Jo ;  Coker  taken  before  Capt 
Willia  Tucker  ye  xxi*''  dye  of  November  1624 
Tutchinge  y  ^  difference  between  Cap*  Raphe  Hamer 
and  Justinian  Coop'r  and  his  wife 

This  deponent  sayeth  y*  he  was  servant  only  to  Ensigne 
James  Harisone,  and  no  man  to  Jo :  Costerd 
or  David  Baylie,  neyther  doth  he  know  of  any  agrement 
betweene  the  said  James  Harisone  John  Coster  and  David 
Barry  of  C'^tnershipp  And  he  also  sayeth  that  the 
said  James  Harysone  had  pte  o'  pcell  of  the 
goodes  that  were  bought  of  M'.  Robert  Bennett 
deceased  by  the  said  John  Coster  or  David  Barry 

John  Coker 

The  depositione  of  John  Curtis 
taken  as  aforesaide 


This  deponent  sayeth  y*  Ensigne  James  Harisone  deceased 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  63 

bought  of  Liv*  John  Cheasman  C^)  his  [Curts's]  tyme  of  ser- 
vice 

and  two  more  named  Henry  Davis  and  Jo :  Maltman 
for  y  *  sole  and  pper  use  of  the  saide  James  Harysone 
for  the  some  of  six  hundred  pownds  of  Tobacco  which 
some  was  paid  by  the  wiefe  of  the  said  James 
Harysone  owt  of  his  owne  pper  Tobacco 
The  mark  X  of  Jo: 

Curtis 
/  William  Tucker  doe  affirmc. 


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isjustinian  Cooper  who,  from  this  entry  is  shown  to  have  married 
Ann  widow  of  James  Harrison,  was  long  resident  in  Virginia  though  his 
name  does  not  appear  in  the  Census  of  1624-5.  He  was  probably  out  of 
the  country  at  the  time.  He  settled  at  Warrosquoiacke  (the  present  Isle 
of  Wight).  On  Sept.  1,  1636,  he  patented  1050  acres  in  the  County  of  War- 
rosquoiacke adjoining  the  head  of  Lawne's  Creek,  Back  Bay  and  his 
own  dwelling  house.  In  1645  he  patented  tracts  of  112  and  1350  acres  in 
Isle  of  Wight  County  near  the  head  of  Seaward's  Creek,  part  of  which 
had  been  granted  to  him  in  1637.     He  had  other  grants  of  land. 

There  are  various  papers  in  the  records  of  Isle  of  Wight  County 
which  refer  to  him.  Among  these  are;  (1)  deed  dated  Oct.  19,  1625,  from 
Gyles  Jones  to  Justinian  Cooper  and  Ann  his  wife,  conveying  100  acres, 
part  of  a  patent  dated  December  14,  1619;  (2)  deed  Sept'29,  1629,  from 
Justinian  Cooper  and  Ann  his  wife,  "late  relic  of  James  Harrison,"  to 
Wassell  Neblin  and  George  Fawdon,  conveying  the  above  named  100 
acres;  (3)  deed,  April.  25,  1646,  from  Justinian  Cooper  and  Ann  his  wife 
to  John  George,  conveying  the  Robert  Bennett  Tract  and  the  Quarter 
Tract (200  acres)  part  of  a  patent  for  2,000  acres,  dated  March  16,  1642; 
(4)  will  of  Justinian  Cooper,  dated  March  26,  1650,  (printed  in  this  Mag- 
azine VI,  122).  His  wife  Ann  was  then  living;  (5)  deed,  1671,  from  William 
Woolard,  late  of  Harwich,  Essex,  England,  mariner,  but  now  resident  in 
Isle  of  Wight  County,  Va.,  heir  of  Justinian  Cooper,  long  since  deceased, 
to  Nathaniel  Bacon,  Esq. 

isjohn  Cheesman,  or  Chisman,  of  Kicoughtan,  gent.,  patented  200 
acres  on  the  river  over  against  that  place,  Sept.  2,  1624.  He  was  born  in 
1597,  came  to  Virginia  in  1621,  was  a  Justice  of  York  County  1635,  mem- 
ber of  the  House  of  Burgesses  1642-3,  and  was  appointed  to  the  Council 

1652.     He  married  Margaret ,  and  returned  to  England  before  1661, 

being  then  a  resident  of  the  parish  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Bermond  Sea, 
Surrey.  He  died  in  1665.  His  brothers  Thomas  and  Edward  Chisman 
(the  latter  bom  in  1602)  were  living  with  him  in  Virginia  in  1623.  From 
the  latter  the  Virginia  family  of  Cheesman  or  Chisman  descends.  See 
this  Magazine  I,  311,  312;  XIV.  86,  and  Wra.  and  Mary  Quarterly  Oct. 
1892  and  July  1893. 


64  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

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A  Cotirte  held  the  xiij*^  of  December  1624  present 
Sr:  Francis  Wyatt  knight  &c  Sr  George  Yardly  Knight 
Doctor  Pott,  Cap*  Hamer,  Cap*  Smith 

Abraham  Porter  swome  and  examined  sayeth  y*  the  last  yeere 

beinge 

at  William  Cluch  his  howse,  he  sawe  A  hogg  kilde  that  hadd 

noe  Eare  marke  and  y*  Cluch  told  this  exa'  he  bought 

that  hogg  of  John  Johnsone  for  A  snaphaine  peece. 

Further  this  Examana*  sayeth  y*  y  *  saide  W™  Gluck   told  this 

Examinat'  y*  John  K.  John  Johnsone  sold  John  Haule  A  hogg 

wch  was  ynearmarkt. 

And  further  this  Ex^  sayth  y*  John  Haule  kild  A  hogg 

vppon  yt  Saboth  dye  by  ye  appoyntment  of  John  Johnsone 

as  Clutch  told  him. 

William  Cluch  awome  and  Ex""  sayeth  y*  John  Johnsone  sold  him 

A  hogg  w"**  was  not  eare  markt,  for  w'^^  hog  he  gave  the 

said  Johnsone  a  snaphame  peece. 

Further  he  sayeth  y*  about  3  weeks  since  this  Exa™  Cominge 

from  Eveninge  prayer  ( ^^)  yppon  the  saboth  daye,  John  Haiile 

had  kUd  a  hog  at  John  Johnsons  house,  for  w^''  John 

Johnsone  was  angry  with  his  wiefe  and  John  Haule. 

Yt  is  ordered  yt  wheras  John  Johnsone  hath  kild  4  hogg  of  3 
quarters  olde  beinge  vnearmarkt,  Contrary  to  A  lawe 
formerly  made,  that  he  shall  make  restitutione  of 
4  other  hogg  of  the  same  age  to  the  use  of  ye  colony  Go^no'. 

Richard  Craven  C^)  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  W™ 

Cooke 

and  Thomas  Hethersell  Borrowed  A  Boate  of  Richard 

Tree  to  Carry  downe  theire  goodes  to  blunt  poynt 

by  whose  Careles  necklect  the  saide  boate  was 

splite  and  quite  loste. 

i^'It  is  interesting  to  know  that  there  was  evening  prayer  in  the 
Church  at  Jamestown  where  John  Johnson  lived. 

isRichard  Craven  owned  150  acres  at  Blunt  Point  in  1626. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  65 

John  Clarksone  swome  and  examined  sayeth  y*  Richard  Tree 

did 

lend    a    boate    to   M'.    Thomas   HethersoU,  w***    boat    M'. 

Hethersoll 

did  p'mise  to  deliuer  safe  again  to  Richard  Tree  at  James 

Cyttie  and  Cominge  to  Martins  hundred,  M'.  W™  Cooke  & 

M'.  Hethersoll,  Richard  Craven  and  this  Exa'  beinge  in  ye  boate 

they  went  ashore,  And  this  Exam'  seeinge  much  fowle  wether 

Cominge,  he  went  and  requested  M'.  Cooke  and  M'.  Hethersoll 

to  Come,  and  helpe  to  draw  ye  boate  to  som  Convenient  place 

where  she  might  be  owt  of  danger  but  they   answered  they 

wold  not  by  reasone  whereof  y  *  boat  was  split  &  lost. 


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Luke  Edan  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  that  there  was 
sixteen  thousand  of  fish  offered  him  by  one  Corbin 
at  Canada  w"^**  aftenv^ard  y*  said  Corbin  refused  to 
sell  him  for  that  it  was  told  him  his  Tobacco  was 
not  good,  and  as  this  Exa'  hurd,  it  was  Henry 
Hewet  that  told  him  soe. 

Further  this  exam  sayeth  y*  there  were  Certen  Rugge 
and  prunes  abourd  the  shipp  of  one  dockett  lanes 

bargand  for  and  Docket  was  to  receive  the 
London  June    Tobacco 
the    twentieth?    for  them,  w"**  in  regard  the  Rug  were  sent 
Dinspensation        ashore 

in  a  fowle  and  Raging  daye  by  Mr  Hewett, 
Dockett 

would  not  lett  this  Exa  by  neither  the  prunes  nor 
Rugg. 


66  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Domine 

[This  Further  this  Exam  sayeth  y*  he  rec'd  but  seventy 

marginal  and  six  pound  waight  of  M'  Marshalls  Tobacco  w°'» 
note  is  he  disbursed  and  is  redy  to  geve  an  Accompt  for  it 
&  and  foorther  saye  that  there  was  about  thre  hundred 

illegible]       pound  waight  of  Tobacco  in  A  Cheast  y*  no  better 

then  doinge  and  nothinge  woorth. 
M""  Doctor  Pott  aflfirmeth  y*  M.  Dilke  beinge  at  his  howse 
told  him  y*  he  was  to  be  his  my  his  neighbour,  sayinge  y'  he 
had  agreed  w**"  Jo:  Lightfoote  for  his  house  and  groundes 
where  vnto  Doctor  Pott  replyed  y*  Jo :  Lightf oot  (to  his 
knowledge)  had  let  the  house  and  grounde  to  goodman 
Binck  ( ^^)  and  y*  it  wold  breed  Controversie  and 
the  pooreman  wold  be  disapoynted,  wherto  Mr.  Delke 
answered  y*  John  Lightfoote  told  him  y'  Binck 
had  geven  it  over,  then  Doctor  Pott  was  sent 
his  boy  for  John  Lightfoote  and  asked  him  when 
he  would  offer  to  sell  his  howse  to  M''  Dilke  in 
regard  he  hadd  formerly  lett  it  to  goodman  Binks 
wherto  he  answered  y^  he  thought  Bincke  wold 
not  have  it  because  he  did  not  com  over  vppon 
new  years  dye,  as  he  had  apoynted. 


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(to  be  continued) 


laWilliam  Banks  and  Ann  his  wife  were  living  at  the  Main  near 
James  City  1624-5. 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  67 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698, 


(From  original  volume  in  the  Virginia  State  Library.) 


"ThisBookbegimby  Mr.  Benjamin  Harrison,  Clerk  of  ye  Council  1698. 
(Inscription  of  fly  leaf.) 


WM.  BYRD  TO  THE  GOVENOR 

May  it  please  your  Excellency 

I  am  most  Sensibly  afflicted  that  my  Lameness  prevents  my 
attendance  on  your  Excellency  at  this  time  as  my  duty  re- 
quires Hope  in  a  short  time  to  be  perfectly  well  when  (God 
willing)  shall  never  be  wanting  to  behave  myselfe  with  all  re- 
spect to  your  Excellency  to  whom  I  wish  a  long  and  prosper- 
ous continuance  in  this  Government  I  shall  always  remain 
most  faithfully 

Your  Excellency's  most  Humble 
And   Obedient  Servant. 

William  Byrd. 

Westopher 

December  ye  7th  1698. 


RICHARD  JOHNSON  TO  THE  GOVERNOR 

May  it  please  your  Excellency 

To  pardon  my  not  wateing  upon  you  according  to  my  duty 
For  my  ould  enemie  the  Gout  had  like  to  have  kept  me  prisnor 
the  last  time  I  was  at  towne  but  was  so  kinde  to  let  me  come 
home  but  the  next  day  Seised  me  and  hath  not  yet  acquited 
me  though  I  thank  God  I  am  able  to  walk  about  a  little  and 
did  adventure  the  last  weeke  to  ride  8  miles  but  (though  it  wa  s 


bo  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

very  Good  wether)  it  made  me  almost  as  lame  againe  as  ever 
and  I  have  not  dared  to  venture  on  horse  back  Since.  Noth- 
ing S'r  but  indispensible  necessitie  could  have  kept  me  from 
comeing  to  kisse  your  Excellency's  hand  and  Expresseing  my 
joy  for  your  comeing  againe  to  Goveme  us  therefore  cannot 
doubt  but  your  Goodness  will  excuse. 

Your  Excellency's 

Most  humble  Servant 
Richard  Johnson. 
December  ye  8  1698 

To  his  Excellency  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  &  c. 


ORDER  FOR  COMMISSARY  BLAIR'S  SALARY 

By  the  Lords  Justices 

(L.  S.) 

Tho.  Cantuar  His    Majesty's   Additionall    Instruc- 

Dorsett  tion  for  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  His 

Marlborough  Majesty's  Lieutenant   and    Govemour 

Romney  Generall  of    his  Majesty's  Colony  and 

Chas.  Montague  Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America  And 

in  his  absence  to  the  Lieutenant  Gover- 

nour  or  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  said 

Colony  for  the  time  being.     Given  at 

Whitehall  the  20  day  of  September  1698 

in   the   Tenth   Year   of   his    Majesty's 

Reign 

Whereas  His  Majesty  has  for  some  years  past  been  pleased 

to  allow  unto  Mr.  James  Blair  Commissary  for  the  Lord  Bishop 

of  London  in  Virginia  One  hundred  Pounds  Yearly  out  of  his 

Quit  Rents  in  that  Colony  which  has  hither  to  been  accordingly 

paid  unto  the  said  Commissary  by  Speciall  Warrants  from  the 

Lords  Commissioners  of  his  Maj'ty's  Treasury,  And  his  Maj'ty 

has  been  humbly  moved  That  the  Govemour  of  the  Said  Colony 

may  for  the  future  be  Directed  by  an  Instruction  to  pay  unto 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  69 

the  said  Commissary  Blair  the  said  allowance  of  One  hundred 
Pounds  yearly  with  the  Arrears  thereof  out  of  his  Maj'ty's 
said  Quit  Rents  without  further  Warrant.  His  Maj'ty's  Will 
and  Pleasure  is  that  you  accordingly  give  Directions  for  the 
payment  of  the  same  out  of  his  Maj'ty's  Quit  Rents  in  that 
Colony  tni  further  Order. 

By  their  Excellency's  Command 

Ja.  Vernon. 
To  his  Excellency  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  His    Maj'ty's 
Lieutenant  and  Govemour  Generall  of    his  Maj'ty's  Colony 
and  Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America. 

Ja.  Vernon. 


ORDER  AS  TO  NAVAL  OFFICERS 


By  the  Lords  Justices 

Tho  Cantuar  Instructions    for    Francis    Nicholson 

Somers  C  Esq'r  his  Maj'ty's  Lieutenant  and  Gov- 

Pembroke  C  P  S  emour  Generall  of  his  Maj'ty's  Colony 

Marlborough  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America 

Romney  and  in  his  Absence  to  the  Lieutenant 

Oxford  Govemoiir  or  Commander  inChief  of  the 

said  Colony  for  the  time  beimg. 
Given  at  Whitehall   the   10  day  of 

November   1698.     In  the  Tenth  Year 

of  his  Majesty's  Reign. 
His  Maj'ty  having  been  informed  that  the  Navall  Officers, 
being  the  Persons  appointed  by  the  Govemours  in  his  respective 
Plantations  in  America  to  take  Bonds  and  give  Certificates 
for  clearing  of  Ships  have  generally  neglected  to  comply  with 
the  Direction  of  the  late  Act  of  Parliament  for  preventing 
frauds  and  Regulating  Abuces  in  the  Plantation  trade  which 
requires  their  giving  Security  to  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Customes  in  England  for  the  due  Discharge  of  their  Trust. 
And  it  having  been  further  represented  to  his  Maj'ty  that 
besides  the  Security  which  the  said  Navall  Officers  are  Obliged 


70  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

by  law  to  give  it  would  be  very  Expedient  that  (according  to 
the  Constitution  of  the  Customes  in  England  which  has  pro- 
vided a  Controul  upon  the  Action  of  every  Officer  Employed 
therein)  the  concurrence  of  the  Collectors  appointed  by  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Customes  in  his   Maj'ty's  respective 
Plantations  should  also  be  made  necessary  to  so  important  an 
Act  as  that  of  Signing  Certificates  for  clearing  of  Ships  his 
Maj'ty  taking  the  same  Into  Consideracon  is  here  by  pleased 
to  declare  his  will  and  pleasure  And  you  are  accordingly  hereby 
required  to  take  care  that  the  Navall  Officer  or  Officers  in  His 
Maj'ty's  Colony  of  Virginia  under  your  Government  do  give 
Secvirity  for  the  due  Discharge  of  his  or   their  Trust  to  such 
Person  as  is  or  shall  be  appinted  by  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Customes  for  that  purpose  according  to  the  Direction  of  the 
forementioned  Act  of  parliament  and  likewise  that  you  do  not 
admitt  or  allow  any  Certificates  signed  by  the  Navall  Officer 
or  Officers  aforesaid  for  the  Clearing  of  Ships  within  His  Maj' 
ty's  said  Colony  of  Virginia  to  be  Valid  and   Effectuall  for 
that  End  without  the  Concurrence  of  the  Collector  appointed 
there  by  the  Commissioners  of  his  Maj'ty's  Customes 
By  their  Excellencies  Command. 

Ja :  Vernon. 


ORDER  IN  REGARD  TO  CAPTAIN  KIDD 

Whitehall   23d   November   1698. 
S'r 

The  Lords  Justices  being  informed  by  severall  advices  from 
the  East  Indies  of  the  notorious  Pyracies  committed  by  Cap't 
Kidd  Commander  of  the  Adventure  Galley  and  of  his  having 
Seized  and  plundered  divers  Ships  in  those  seas  As  their  Ex- 
cellency's have  given  Order  to  the  Commander  of  the  Squadron 
fitted  out  for  the  East  Indies  that  he  use  his  Utmost  Endeavors 
to  pursue  and  seize  the  Said  Kidd  if  he  continue  still  in  those 
parts  so  likewise  they  have  Commanded  me  to  signify  their 
Direccons  to  the  respective  Govemours  of  the  Colony's  under 
his  Maj'ty's  Obedience  in  America  that  they  give  strict  Orders 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  71 

and  take  partioilar  Care  for  apprehending  the  said  Kidd  and 
his  Accomplices  whenever  he  or  they  shall  arrive  in  any  of  the 
said  Plantations  as  likewise  that  they  Secure  his  Ship  and  all 
the  effects  therein  it  being  their  Excellency's  intention  that  right 
be  done  to  those  who  have  been  injured  and  rob'd  by  the  said 
Kidd  and  that  he  and  his  Associates  be  prosecuted  with  the 
utmost  Vigour  of  Law  You  are  to  be  carefuU  thereof  duly  to 
observe  the  said  Direccons  And  if  the  said  Kidd  or  any  of  his 
Accomplices  happen  to  be  seized  within  the  Province  under 
your  Government  You  are  forthwith  to  transmitt  an  account 
thereof  hither  and  take  care  that  the  said  persons  Ship  and 
Effects  be  secured  till  his  Maj'ty's  pleasure  be  known  con- 
cerning them.     I  am  S'r 

Your  most  faithfull 

himible  Servant 

Ja:  Vernon. 

To  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r 
His  Maj'ty's  Lieutenant  and 
Govemour  Generall  of  his 
Maj'ty's  Colony  and  Dominion 
of  Virginia  in 

America 
Ja  Vernon  Exam'd  P.  B.  Harrison. 


THE  SEAL  OF  THE  COLONY 

William  R. 
(L.  S.) 

To  our  Trusty  and  well  beloved  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r 
Our  Lieutenant  and  Govemour  Generall  of  our  Colony  and 
Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America  and  to  our  Lieutenant  Gov- 
emour and  Commander  in  Chief  of  our  said  Colony  for  the 
time  being,  Greeting.  With  this  You  will  receive  a  Seal  pre- 
pared by  our  Order  for  the  use  of  our  Government  of  Virginia 
which  seal  is  Engraven  with  Our  Armes,  Garter  and  Crown 
with  this  Inscription  round  the  same  En  Dat  Virginia-Quintum. 


72  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

And  our  Will  and  Pleasure  is,  and  we  do  hereby  authorize  you 
and  our  Lieutenant  Govemour  or  Commander  in  Chief  of  our 
Said  Colony  for  the  time  being  to  Affix  the  said  Seal  to  all 
patents  and  Grants  of  Lands  and  to  all  publick  Acts  and  instru- 
ments of  Government  which  shall  be  made  and  pased  in  Our 
Name  within  our  said  Colony  and  that  it  be  to  all  intents  and 
purposes  of  the  same  force  and  Validity  as  any  former  Seal  ap- 
pointed for  the  publick  use  of  the  Government  in  oiu-  said 
Colony  hath  heretofore  been  which  former  Seals  are  not  to  be 
made  use  of  or  Affixed  to  any  Publick  Act  or  Instruments  what- 
soever but  to  be  Defaced  and  broken.  Given  at  our  Court  at 
Kensington  the  10th  day  of  Janu'ry  1698.  In  the  Tenth  year 
of  oiu"  Reign. 

By  his   Maj'ty's   Command 

Ja:  Vernon. 

GOVERNOR  NICHOLSON  TO  THE  GOVERNOR  OF 
NORTH  CAROLINA 

Virginia,  James  City,  May  3,  1699« 
Honorable  Sir 

I  received  Yours  to  me  of  the  16th  of  March  last,  In  answer 
to  an  Order  of  myselfe  in  Councill,  Dated  at  James  City  the 
24th  day  of  February  last,  transmitted  unto  You  by  Coll. 
Quary  ptu-suant  also  to  what  You  advise  in  that  Letter,  upon 
the  28th  of  the  last  moneth  arrived  at  this  Place  Mr.  Akehurst 
and  Cap't  Walker  the  Gentlemen  appointed  by  You  and  the 
Councill  of  Your  Province  to  agree  upon  and  Settle  the  bounds 
between  this  His  Maj'ts  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia 
and  Your  said  Province  of  Carolina.  I  shall  at  all  times  be  very 
ready  to  do  anything  that  is  requisite  on  my  Parte  for  the  per- 
fecting of  a  Worke  which  I  talvC  to  be  so  very  Necessary  and  so 
much  contributing  to  the  Peace  and  Quiet  of  both  these  Col- 
onyes;  But  at  present  it  is  the  Opinion  of  myself  and  his  Maj'ts 
Honorable  Councill  of  state  for  this  his  Colony  and  Dominion 
of  Virginia  that  I  cannot  safely  Comiconate  any  persons  to 
treat  with  the  Gent'n  from  your  Province  about  this  affair. 
Wee  have  not  any  Design  of  Delaying  so  good  a  Worke  but 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  73 

we  are  Desirous  that  when  it  is  done  it  may  be  Effectual  and 
Valid  in  all  time  coming  and  that  wee  think  the  Gent,  ap- 
pointed by  you  are  not  sufficiently  Qualified  to  do.  Our  Rea- 
son for  this  Opinion  is  grounded  upon  an  act  of  Parliament  of 
the  seventh  and  Eighth  Years  of  his  present  Maj'ty  Intituled 
an  act  for  Preventing  frauds  and  regulating  abuses  in  the  plan- 
tacon  trade  which  I  have  given  to  the  Gent,  for  Your  More 
particular  Satisfacon  herein  in  this  act  it  is  Enacted  that  all 
the  then  present  Govemours  or  Comanders  in  Cheif  of  any 
English  Colonyes  or  Plantacons  shall  before  the  25  day  of 
March  1697  take  a  solemn  Oath  &c.  as  in  the  said  act  is  More 
at  large  Directed;  and  by  another  Clause  in  the  said  act  it  is 
Enacted  that  all  Govemours  Nominated  and  Appointed  by 
any  persons  or  proprietors  who  shall  be  Intituled  to  make  such 
Nominacon  shall  be  allowed  and  approved  of  by  his  Maj'ty 
his  Heires  and  successours  Signifyed  by  his  or  their  order  in 
Councill  who  shall  take  the  Oaths  Enjoyned  by  this  Or  any 
other  Act  to  be  taken  by  the  Govemours  or  Commanders  in 
Cheif  in  other  his  Maj'ty 's  Colonyes  and  plantacons;  By  this 
act  you  may  please  to  observe  it  is  required  that  you  be  ap- 
proved by  his  Maj'ty  to  be  signifyed  as  is  aforemenconed  and 
that  you  likewise  take  the  said  Oaths  before  you  can  be  suf- 
ficiently Qualified  to  Execute  the  Office  of  Govemour  or  Com- 
ander  in  Cheif  of  any  Propriety,  and  for  as  much  as  it  doth 
not  appear  that  you  have  Complyed  therewith  Wee  are  of 
Opinion  that  it  is  not  convenient  for  us  to  treat  with  any  Per- 
son or  Persons  by  you  appointed  to  agree  upon  and  settle  this 
affair  between  these  two  Colonyes;  Therefore  all  further  pro- 
ceedings therein  Must  for  the  present  be  suspended  untill  you 
can  give  an  Account  thereof  to  those  persons  for  whom  You 
are  Concemed  and  shall  Obtain  such  Approbacon  and  Quali- 
fycacon  as  by  the  act  of  Parliament  aforemenconed  is  directed 
and  required  I  on  m}'  parte  shall  take  care  that  our  proceed- 
ings Herein  may  be  layd  before  his  Majesty  for  his  further 
comands  thereupon  and  I  hope  by  the  next  fall  to  receive  such 
Direccons  as  shall  be  thought  necessary;  I  desire  lilcewise  that 
you  on  your  parte  will  take  Care  to  obtain  such  Qualificacons 
and  Instruccons  as  are  requisite  for  you  by  the  Consent  of  Mr. 


74  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Akehurst  and  Cap't  Walker  I  have  Caused  the  Exemplificacon 
of  your  proprietor's  Charter  to  be  recorded  here  so  that  there 
will  not  be  occasion  any  more  to  hazard  that  Upon  so  long  a 
Journey  as  to  send  it  hither  for  our  Satisfaccon  therein. 

I  must  further  acquaint  you  that  by  Comicon  under  the  great 
Seal  of  the  high  Admiralty  of  England  Dated  the  26  day  of 
June  in  the  Year  1697 — Directed  unto  Sir  Edmund  Andros 
Knight  His  Maj'ts  late  Lieutenant  and  Govemour  Generall 
of  Virginia  and^  to  His  Maj't's  Lieutenant  and  Govemour  Gen- 
erall of  Virginia  for  the  time  being  His  Maj'ty  hath  been  pleased 
to  Grant  unto  his  said  Lieutenant  and  Govemoiu"  Generall  of 
Virginia  for  the  time  being  Power  and  Authority  to  appoint 
Judges  Registers  Marshalls  and  Advocates  for  the  Admiralty 
Courts  of  Virginia  Carolina  and  the  Bahama  Islands  by  Virtue 
of  which  Said  Comicon  the  said  Sir  Edmimd  Andros  by  severill 
comicons  did  appoint  the  Hon'ble  Edward  Hill  Esq'r  judge, 
Miles  Gary  Gent.  Register,  Michael  Sherman  Gent,  Marshall, 
and  John  Taylor  Gent.  Advocate,  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  in 
this  His  Maj'ts  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  and  the 
Province  of  North  Carolina  I  herewith  send  you  Copyes  of  the 
said  Severall  Comicons  for  your  better  Informacon  therein  and 
I  do  recomend  the  same  to  your  care  that  when  any  matters 
shall  happen  requiring  the  Presence  and  Service  of  the  said 
judge  and  Officers,  you  will  give  me  timely  Intimacon  thereof 
that  I  may  give  such  direccons  as  shall  be  necessary  therein- 
which  is  all  at  present  from 

Yoiu*  Affectionate  Friend  and 

Humble  Servant 
ff.  Nicholson. 

For  His  Maj'tys  Speciall  Service 

To 

The  Hon'ble  Thomas  Harvey  Esq'r 

Deputy  Govemour  of  His  Maj'ts 

Province  of  North  Carolina. 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  76 

THE  PRESIDENT  ETC.  OF  WILLIAM  &  MARY 
COLLEGE  TO  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 

To  the  honourable  The  Speaker  and  Gentlemen  of  the  house 
of  Burgesses. 

We  the  president,  Masters  and  Scholars  of  the  Royal  Col- 
ledge  of  William  and  Mary  in  Virginia,  being  deeply  sensible 
of  the  great  honoxir  lately  conferred  on  this  Colledge  by  the 
hon'ble  House  of  Burgesses  first  in  graceing  our  Scholastick 
exercises  with  your  own  countenance  and  presence  on  May  day 
last,  and  then  in  giveing  so  favourable  a  Judgement  and  Charac- 
ter of  the  proficiency  of  our  Youth  in  their  Studies  and  in  re- 
commending the  said  Colledge  to  our  good  Govemours  care  and 
favour  in  your  most  hearty  address  made  to  his  Excellency 
for  that  purpose :  Desire  leave  in  all  humility  to  offer  our  most 
thankfull  acknowledgements  for  the  same  and  withall  to  as- 
sure this  hon'ble  House  that  nothing  can  so  effectually  en- 
courage us  to  go  on  in  the  chearfull  prosecution  of  our  studies 
as  the  favourable  countenance  of  so  great  Patrons  as  we  hope 
to  find  both  in  his  Excellency  and  the  present  Generall  Assem- 
bly for  which  good  understanding  among  your  selves  and  joint 
endeavours  to  carry  on  this  and  all  other  good  works  We  doubt 
not  ye  will  have  the  blessings  and  prayers  of  all  good  men  to 
join  with  those  of 

Your  most  obliged  humble  Servants 

James  Blair  Presid't. 
Mongs  Inglis  humanity  prof: 
John  Hodges  Usher. 

In  name  &  at  the  desire  of  the  rest  of  our  Condisciples 

Orlando  Jones  ] 

Henry  Harrison        I  o  ,    i 
T  1,     A 11  f  Scholars 

John  Allen  '| 

John  Jones  J 

The  Answer  sent  by  Major  Custis  and  Cap't.  Wilson. 

The  house  have  sent  us  to  acquaint  you  that  they  have  read 
your  address  it  is  received  mighty  kindly  and  they  hope  you 
you  will  always  merit  their  good  Esteem. 


76  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  TO  THE  GOVERNOR 

To  his  Excellency  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  His  Maj'ts  Lieu- 
tenant and  Govemour  Generall  of  Virginia. 

The  humble  Address  of  the  Councill  and  Burgesses  of  this 
present  Generall  Assembly 

May  it  please  your  Excellency 

Wee  the  Coimcill  and  Burgesses  of  the  present  General  As- 
sembly being  sensible  of  the  great  Mischeifs  and  Inconveniences 
that  Accrew  to  the  Inhabitants  of  this  His  Maj'ts  Colony  and 
Dominion  of  Virginia  By  killing  of  Whales  within  the  Capes 
thereof  Doe  in  all  humility  take  Leave  to  Represent  the  same 
unto  Your  Excellency  And  withall  to  acquaint  you  That  by 
the  Means  thereof  Great  Quantity es  of  Fish  are  poysoned  and 
destroyed  And  the  Rivers  also  made  noisome  and  Offensive 
For  prevention  of  which  Evills  In  regard  the  Restraint  of  the 
Killing  of  Whales  is  a  Branch  of  His  Majestyes  Royall  Pre- 
rogative. 

Wee  humbly  Pray  that  Your  Excellency  will  be  pleased  to 
Issue  out  a  Proclamation  forbiding  All  Persons  whatsoever  to 
Strike  or  kill  any  Whales  within  the  Bay  of  Chesapeake  in 
the  Limits  of  Virginia  which  wee  hope  will  prove  an  Effectual! 
means  to  prevent  the  many  Evills  that  Arise  therefrom. 

Richard  Lee  in  behalf  of  His  Majestyes  Honorable  Councill. 
Robert  Carter,  Speaker. 


THE  HOUSE  OF  BURGESSES  TO  THE  KING 

To  the  Kings  Most  Excellent  Majesty 

We  yo'r  Majestyes  most  Loyall  and  Obedient  Subjects  The 
Burgesses  of  the  Generall  Assembly  in  yo'r  Majestyes  most 
Antient  and  great  Colony  &  Dominion  of  Virginia  now  As- 
sembled, Doe  humbly  Embrace  this  Occasion,  In  the  first  place 
to  Congratulate  yo'r  Majestyes  Safe  &  happy  Retume  to  yo'r 
Kingdome  of  England,  haveing  first  purchased  &  Secured 
through  yo'r  own  personall  Valour  Conduct  and  Prudence  a 
Glorious,  Hon'ble  and  Setled  peace  not  only  to  Christendome 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  77 

but  Even  by  Means  of  yo'r  Wisdome  &  Mediation  between  his 
Imperiall  Majesty  and  the  Grand  Signior  to  the  very  Turks  & 
Infidells  by  which  your  Majesty  has  Emimently  appeared  to 
be  the  Sole  &  great  Arbiter  both  of  Warr  and  peace  in  the 
largest  part  of  the  Known  World  to  Accomplish  which  you 
have  not  Spared  to  Expose  your  own  Sacred  precious  &  Royall 
person  to  the  Great  Hazards  &  Most  Eminent  Dangers  in 
which  yo'r  Majesty  had  noe  other  End  than  the  preservation 
&  Defence  of  the  true  Protestant  Religion  and  the  Libertyes 
&  propertyes  of  Europe,  This  Great  S'r  Altho'  we  live  soere- 
mote  We  are  not  Ignorant  of  and  long  ere  this  we  Should  have 
Expressed  our  Sence  of  the  Same  by  an  hiunble  Address  to  yo'r 
most  Sacred  Majesty  had  we  bin  in  a  Capacity  as  a  house  of 
Burgesses  of  doeing  it  before. 

In  the  next  place  we  think  our  Selves  Obleiged  in  duty  to 
yo'r  Majesty  in  all  humility  to  Express  our  deep  Sence  and  to 
make  a  Gratefull  Accknowledgm't  of  your  many  Royall  flav- 
ours and  bounty's  from  time  to  time  bestowed  upon  this  your 
Ancient  and  great  Colony  and  Dominion  in  Generall  &  upon 
yo'r  Royall  Colledge  of  William  &  Mary  in  P'ticiilar,  And 
hiunbly  to  Begg  that  Continueance  of  your  Royall  Grace  Fa- 
vour &  Protection  to  us  &  it 

We  also  Accknowledge  it  our  highest  Duty  to  yo'r  Majesty  to 
Retiime  our  hiunble  and  unfeigned  Thanks  to  Almighty  God 
for  the  preservation  &  Continuance  of  your  life  &  health  And 
it  shall  be  our  Daily  prayers  that  yo'r  Majesty  may  have  a 
Long  and  Happy  Reigne  over  all  yo'r  Kingdomes  &  Domin- 
ions, And  may  all  your  Loyall  Subjects  for  Ever  bear  in  Mind 
the  Inestimable  Benefits  they  have  received  from  yo'r  Maj- 
esty who  have  (under  God)  been  the  Main  Bulwark  and  De- 
fence of  our  Religion  Lawes  and  Libertyes  &c'a  And  it  has 
alwayes  bin  the  happiness  of  this  Dominion  to  Deserve  the 
Character  of  Loyall  &  Dutifull  Subjects,  Soe  at  this  time  we 
take  Leave  in  most  Humble  Manner  to  Assiu-e  yo'r  Majesty 
we  will  Continue  Soe  to  our  Lives  End. 

Robert  Carter,  Speaker  in 
Behalf  of  the  house  of  Burgesses. 


78  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

THE  OATH  OF  A  COUNCELLOUR. 

You  Shall  Swear  to  be  a  true  and  faithfull  Servant  unto  the 
Kings  Majesty  as  One  of  His  Councni  of  State  and  to  be  aiding 
and  assisting  to  His  Excellency  His  Majesties  Leiutenant  and 
Govenour  Generall  of  Virginia;  You  shall  in  all  things  to  be 
moved  treated  and  debated  in  the  Councill  faithfully  declare 
Your  Mind  and  opinion  according  to  Your  heart  and  Conscience, 
and  Shall  keep  Secret  all  matters  comitted  and  revealed  unto 
you  concerning  the  Same,  and  that  Shall  be  treated  Secretly  in 
the  Councill,  untni  Such  time  as  by  the  Consent  of  His  Maj- 
esties Leiutenant  and  Govenour  Generall  and  the  full  consent 
of  the  Councill  of  State  there  Resident  or  the  Maj'r  part  of 
them,  Publicacon  Shall  be  made  thereof;  You  Shall  to  Your 
utmost  bear  faith  and  Allegiance  to  the  King's  Majesty  his 
heirs  and  lawfuU  Successors,  and  Shall  assist  and  Defend  all 
Jurisdiccons  preheminences  and  Authorities  granted  imto 
His  Majesty  and  annex't  imto  the  Crown  against  all  fforeign 
Princes  Persons  Prelates  and  Potentates  whatsoever  And  Gen- 
erally You  Shall  act  and  doe  in  all  things  as  a  faithfull  and  true 
Subject  Ought  to  doe  to  His  Majesty. 

Soe  help  You  God. 


THE  COMMISSION  OF  THE  CLERKE  OF  THE 
GEN'LL  ASSEMBLY 
VIRGINIA  SS. 

William  the  third  by  the  Grace  of  God  King  of  England 

Scotland  ffrance  and  Ireland  Defender  of  the  faith  &c  To 

Gent.  Greeting  We  doe  by  these  presents  constitute  and  ap- 
point you  to  be  Clerk  of  the  Generall  Assembly  of  this  our 
Colony  and  Dominion  hereby  giveing  and  granting  unto  You 
full  power  and  authority  to  your  own  proper  use  and  behoofe 
to  take  and  receive  all  Salarys  ffees  and  perquisites  whatsoever 
belonging  to  the  Office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Generall  Assembly 
of  this  Our  Colony  and  Dominion  with  power  to  execute  and 
enjoy  all  Trusts  Services  Rights  Members  and  Appurtenances 
as  to  the  Said  Office  are  justly  and  Lawfully  belonging  in  as  fuU 


COUNCIL  PAPERS,  1698.  79 

and  ample  manner  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  any  other 
Pson  heretofore  hath  or  ought  to  have  enjoyed  the  Same, 
To  have  hold  execute  and  enjoy  the  Said  Office  dureing  pleasure 
Witness  Our  Trusty  and  well-beloved  ffrancis  Nicholson  Esq'r 
Our  Leiutenant  and  Govenour  Generall  of  Virginia  at  James- 
Town  imder  the  Seal  of  Our  Colony  this  day  of 
1699  in  the  Eleventh  Yeare  of  Our  Reign. 


THE  CLERK  OF  THE  GEN'LL  ASSEMBLY  HIS 
OATH. 

You  Shall  Swear  as  Clerk  of  the  Gen '11  Assembly  of  this 
His  Maj'ts  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  to  which  Office 
You  are  appointed  by  His  Excellency  faithfully  Justly  and 
uprightly  to  make  true  Entries  and  Joumall's  of  all  Votes 
and  Proceedings  in  the  Said  Gen'll  Assembly  as  from  time  to 
time  you  Shall  receive  Orders  and  Direccons  and  you  Shall 
in  all  thing's  according  to  your  best  Skill  and  Judgment  Dis- 
charge and  Execute  the  Said  Office  and  Trust  of  Clerk  of  the 
Gen'll  Assembly. 

Soe  help  you  God. 


THE  COMMISSION  OF  THE  CLERK  OF  THE 
COUNCILL. 

William  the  third  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland 
ffrance  and  Ireland  King  Defender  of  the  faith  &c. 

Gent.  Greeting  We  doe  by  these  presents  Constitute  and 
appoint  you  to  be  Clerk  of  Our  Coimcill  in  Our  Colony  and 
Dominion  of  Virginia  with  power  to  take  and  receive  to  your 
own  proper  use  and  behoofe  all  flfees  Dues  and  perquisites  to 
the  Said  place  usually  belonging  or  appertaining  To  have  and 
to  hold  the  Said  Office  dureing  pleasure  Witness  Our  Trusty 
and  Well-beloved  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  Our  Leiutenant  and 
Govenor  Gen'll  of  Virginia  at  James  Towne  under  the  Seal  of 
Our  Colony  this  day  of  1699  in  the  Eleventh 

Year  of  Our  Reign. 


80  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

THE  OATH  OF  THE  CLERK  OF  THE  COUNCILL. 

You  Shall  Swear  that  you  will  well  and  truely  Execute  the 
place  of  Clerk  of  the  Councill  of  this  His  Majesties  Dominion 
of  Virginia  to  the  best  of  your  Judgment  and  Knowledge  You 
Shall  faithfully  Enter  all  Orders  and  Shall  not  discover  the 
Secrett  proceedings  of  His  Excellency  the  Govenour  and  Cotm- 
cill  to  any  pson  whatsoever  till  the  same  be  otherwise  made 
Publick  but  Shall  to  the  best  of  your  Understanding  doe  all 
things  relating  to  the  Said  place  or  Office  faithfully  justly  and 
honestly. 

Soe  help  you  God. 
(to  be  continued) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  81 


HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  NOTES  AND 
QUERIES. 


Deed  for  the  Bermudas,  1612. 
(Abstract.) 

This  Indenture  made  the  five  and  twentieth  day  of  November  in 
the  yeres  of  the  raigne  of  our  most  gracious  and  soveraigne  lord  James 
by  the  grace  of  God  king  of  England,  Scotland,  Fraunce  and  Ireland, 
defender  of  the  faith  etc,  that  is  to  say  of  England,  Fraunce  and  Ireland 
the  tenth,  and  of  Scotland  the  six  and  fortieth  betweene  the  Treasurer 
and  Company  of  Adventure:  s  and  planters  of  the  Citty  of  London  for 
the  first  Colony  in  Virginia  of  the  one  parte  and  Sir  William  Woad, 
knight,  Sir  Dudley  Digges,  knight.  Sir  Baptist  Hickes,  knight,  Richard 
Martyn  of  the  middle  Temple  London  Esquire,  John  Wolstenholme 
Esquire,  Richard  Chamberlyn,  Robert  Offley,  Robert  Johnson,  Jerome 
Heydon,  George  Scott  and  George  Barkley  of  London,  merchauntes  of 
tothcr  parte  witnesseth  that  whereas  it  pleased  the  kinges  most  excellent 
maiesty  by  his  letters  patent  bearing  date  at  Westminster  the  twelveth 
day  of  march  in  the  nynth  yere  of  his  maiesties  raigne  of  England  (1609) 
10)  Fraunce  and  Ireland  and  of  Scotland  the  five  and  forthieth  of  his  es- 
peciall  grace  knowledge  and  meere  mocion  to  give  graimt  and  confirme 
vnto  the  said  Treasurer  and  Company  of  Adventurers  and  planters  of 
the  Citty  of  London  for  the  first  Colony  in  Virginia  and  to  their  heires 
and  successors  for  ever.  All  and  singular  those  Islands  Whatsoever 
situate  and  being  in  any  part  of  the  Ocean  seas  bordering  vpon  the  coast 
of  the  said  first  Colony  in  Virginia  and  being  within  three  hundred  leagues 
of  any  of  the  partes  heretofore  graunted  to  the  said  Tresurer  and  Com- 
pany by  his  maiesties  former  letters  patents  therein  recited  and 
being  within  or  between  the  one  and  forty  and  Thirty  degrees  of  Nor- 
therly latitude  together  with  all  and  singular  soyles  landes,  groundes, 
havens,  portes,  rivers,  waters,  fishinges,  mynes,  and  myneralles  as  well 
royall  mynes  of  gold  and  silver  as  other  mynes  and  myneralles  pearles 
precious  stones  quarries  and  all  and  singular  other  comodities  iuris- 
dictions  royalties  priviledge  franchises  and  phemynences  both  within 
the  said  Tract  of  land  vpon  the  mayne  and  also  within  the  said  Island 
and  seas  adioyning  Whatsoever  and  thereto  or  thereaboute  both  by  sea 
and  land  being  or  scituated  which  his  maiesty  by  his  patentes  might  or 

could  graunt  and  in  as  ample and  sort  as  his  majesty  or  any  his 

noble  progenitors  have  heretofore. 


82  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Close  Roll,  II  James  I  W.  pte  40. 

Virginians  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 

Admissions  1701-1800. 

Carter,  John,  son  of  Robert  Carter  of  Virginia,  America.  School, 
Mile  End,  London  (Mr.  Maltaire).  Age  18  Fellow-Commoner,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1714.  Tutor,  Mr.  Baker,  [Matriculated,  1714.  Did  not  grad- 
uate]. 

Taylor,"  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  Taylor,  Judge  of  Virginia,  America. 
Educated  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  Virginia.  Age  21.  From 
St.  John's  College  whence  he  had  matriculated,  1724.  Sizar,  October  14, 
1724.     Tutor  Mr.  Parue  [B.  A.  1727]. 

Ambler,  John,  Son  of  Richard  Ambler  of  York  Town,  Virginia, 
America.  School  Wakefield,  Yorkshire  (Mr.  Clarke)  Age  19.  Pen- 
sioner, October  15,  1753.  Tutor,  Mr.  Whisson.  [Matriculated  1753. 
Did  not  graduate]. 

Beverley,  Robert,  son  of  William  Beverley  of  Virginia,  America. 
School  Wakefield,  Yorkshire  (Mr.  Clarke).  Age  17.  Pensioner,  May 
19,  1757,  Tutor,  Mr.  Whisson,     [Matriculated,  1757.     Did  not  graduate.] 

Smith,  Thomas,  son  of  Gregory  Smith  of  Virginia,  America. 
School,  Wakefield,  Yorkshire  (Mr.  Atkinson)  Age  18.  Pensioner, 
April  21,  1759.  Tutor  Mr.  Whisson  [Matriculated  1759;  Scholar  1760; 
B.  A.  1763.] 

Riddell,  George,  son  of  Andrew  Riddel!  of  Enfield,  Middlesex. 
School,  Hampton,  Virginia,  America  (Dr.  Warrington),  Age  17.  Pen- 
sioner, September  29,  1769.  Tutor,  Mr.  Postlethwaite,  [Matriculated 
1770;  Scholar  1771;  B.  A.  1774. 

Beverley,  William,  son  of  Robert  Beverley  of  Blandfield,  Essex. 
School,  Fredericksburg,  Spotsylvania,  Virginia,  North  America  (Mr. 
Denholm).  Age  18.  Pensioner,  April  4,  1781.  Tutors  Mr.  Therond  & 
Mr.  Cranke.    [Did  not  Matriculate  or  graduate]. 

Skipwith,  Gray,  Son  of  Peyton  Skipwith  of  Virginia,  America. 
School,  Eton  (Dr.  Davies').  Age  19.  Fellow  Commoner,  November 
25,  1790.    Tutor.  Mr.  Jones.     [Did  not  matriculate  or  graduate]. 

Portraits  of  F.  S.  Key. 
My  mother,  who  was  the  eldest  child  of  Francis  Scott  Key,  author 
of  "The  Star-Spangled  Banner,"  and  who  died  September  9th,  1897,  at 
the  age  of  nearly  94  years,  told  me  that  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke  and 
her  father  had  their  portraits  painted  for  exchange,  but  that  Randolph 
did  not  like  Key's  portrait  and  gave  it  to  her.     It  is  of  small  size. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  83 

Now  I  notice  in  Garland's  Life  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  in 
a  letter  from  Randolph  to  Key  on  page  86  of  Volume  2,  May  7th,  1816, 
he  writes  of  the  intention  of  giving  the  artist — Wood,  of  Washington, 
D.  C. — a  last  sitting  for  his  portrait  and  his  expectation  of  having  Key's 
portrait  in  return,  and  in  a  letter  dated  Richmond,  April  29,  1818,  on 
page  96,  he  says  :  "On  my  arrival  here  the  day  before  yesterday  I  found 
the  picture  and  the  picture  frame  which  poor  L.  left  for  me.  Wood  has 
again  failed,  but  not  so  entirely  as  at  first.  It  is  you  in  some  of  your 
humors,  but  neither  your  serious  nor  more  cheerful  face.  It  shall  hang, 
however,  near  my  bed,  and  I  hope  will  prove  a  benefit  as  well  as  a  pleas- 
ure to  me." 

Now  it  seems  likely  that  the  picture  which  Randolph  gave  to  my 
mother  was  Wood's  first  and  less  successful  attempt,  and  if  so,  that  there 
may  be  in  Virginia  his  second  and  better  portrait  of  Key,  which  Ran- 
dolph so  actually  received,  framed,  at  Richmond,  and  was  about  to  take 
to  his  home.  Can  any  of  your  readers  tell  where  such  a  portrait  may  be 
looked  for?     It  would  probably  be  a  small  one. 

What  has  become  of  John  Randolph's  effects? 

Randolph's  portrait  was  in  possession  of  one  of  Francis  Scott  Key's 
grandchildren  a  few  years  ago. 

Mc  Henry  Howard, 

901  St.  Paul  St.,  Baltimore,  Md., 
7th  December,  1912. 

My  mother  told  me  anecdotes  about  Randolph,  who  was  often  at 
her  father's  house  in  Georgetown  and  was  warmly  attached  to  her  father 
and  his  family.  On  one  occasion  he  was  jostled  on  the  street  in  Wash- 
ington by  some  elaborately  dressed  member  of  a  foreign  diplomatic 
corps.  He  turned  to  his  servant  Juba  and  asked  in  his  high  voice,  "Who's 
that  Juba?"  "Dunno,  Massa."  "Puppy,  Juba,  hey  Juba?"  "Speck  so, 
Massa."    But  I  think  these  anecdotes  have  appeared  in  print. 

I  have  some  fine  engravings  which  Randolph  brought  back  from 
Europe  and  gave  to  my  mother.  I  have  also  a  number  of  letters  which 
passed  between  Randolph  and  Key — from  each  to  the  other. 


NOTES  FROM  THE  RECORD  OF  CHARLES  CITY  COUNTY. 

[The  records  of  Charles  City  County  suffered  greatly  at  the  hands 
of  the  soldiers  of  M'Clellan's  army.  Books  and  papers  of  all  kinds  up 
to  about  1735  were  destroyed  or  carried  away.  The  same  fate  befel  all 
the  will  books  prior  to  1770,  and  so  far  as  the  compiler  could  discover, 
there  are  no  deed  books  prior  to  1767  left.  The  order  books  (court  pro. 
ceedings)  beginning  about  1735  are  fairly  continuous  to  the  end  of  the 
colonial  period.  Of  dates  later  than  the  Revolution  a  number  of  books 
remain  as  do  many  marriage  bonds]. 


84  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Lyddall  Bacon  deputy  clerk  1767. 

Deed  from  John  Edloe  of  Charles  City  to  Benjamin  Dancy  of  same, 
March  1,  1768. 

Mordecai  Debnam  Clerk  of  Charles  City  1768. 

Deed,  May  4,  1768,  from  John  Hardyman  of  Charles  City  to  his 
daughter  Elizabeth  Eppes  of  same,  conveying  two  negroes. 

Deed,  April  1,  1768,  from  Mary  Eppes,  widow,  of  Charles  City,  to 
William  Forbom,  of  same,  who  had  married  her  daughter  Mary  Ann  and 
had  two  children  Andrew  and  Mary  Ann  Forbom. 

Deed,  Oct.  29,  1768,  from  Littleberry  Cocke,  Gent.,  of  Charles 
City,  to  his  daughter  Rebecca,  conveying  six  negroes  in  trust  for  said 
Littleberry  and  Rebecca  Hubbard  his  wife,  during  their  lives  and  then 
to  go  to  their  said  daughter  Rebecca  (Mrs  Rebecca  Cocke  had  before 
been  the  wife  of  Henry  Soane). 

Deed,  May  1,  1769,  from  Edward  Munford  and  Betty  his  wife  of 
Halifax  Co.  N.  C,  to  Paul  Jones  of  Charles  City  Covmty,  Va.,  conveying 
a  tract  of  land  on  Tomahim  Creek  in  Charles  City  Co.,  devised  by  Ed- 
ward Brodnax  to  Betty  Brodnax  now  Betty  Monfort,  for  her  life. 
Signed  Edward  and  Betty  Montfort. 

Deed,  April  15,  1769  from  Travis  Harwood 

Account  of  estate  of  Temple  Eppes.  deceased,  with  Henrietta 
Maria  Eppes;  an  item  is  for  board  of  Lewellin  Eppes  1767-1769,  and 
another  for  the  board  of  an  infant. 

Deed,  July  7,  1769,  from  William  Hill  and  Mary  his  wife,  of  Wil- 
liamsburg, to  Charles  Jeffrey  Smith,  Master  of  Arts,  of  Long  Island, 
N.  Y.,  conveying  1700  acres  in  Charles  City. 

Deed,  Aug.  12,  1769  from  William  Byrd  of  Westover,  to  Joseph 
Farrell  and  William  Jones  of  Bristol  [This  is  a  deed  conveying  many 
slaves,  and  all  the  silver  plate  at  Westover  to  secure  debts.  An  abstract 
of  this  deed  was  printed  in  this  magazine  IX,  81,  82]. 

Deed,  June  8,  1773,  between  Rebecca  Cocke  of  Charles  City  Co., 
James  Bray  Johnson  of  James  City  Co.,  and  Rebecca  Hubbard  Cocke 
of  Charles  City  Co.,  being  a  marriage  Contract  between  the  said  Reb- 
ecca Cocke  and  J.  B.  Johnson. 


ORDER   BOOK. 

June  2,  1754,  William  and  Littleberry  Hardyman,  justices: 

Travis  Harwood,  infant  orphan  of  Samuel  Harwood  chose  John 
Jacob  Dainzee  his  guardian. 

August  1,  1754,  William  Edloe,  Captain,  and  George  Minge,  lieu- 
tenant, qualified  as  militia  officers. 

Petition  of  William  Brodnax,  administrator  with  will  annexed, 
of  Edward  Brodnax  ,  deceased. 

(P.  139)  John  Edloe,  Major,  and  Littleberry  Cocke,  Captain,  qual- 
ified as  militia  officers. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  85 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Richard  Cocke,  deceased,  presented  by 
Alice  Cocke. 

Nov.  5,  1755.  Philip  Edmondson  appointed  guardian  of  William, 
Richard  and  Mary,  orphans  of  William  Cole,  deceased 

(P.  2)  John  Stith  qualified  as  lieutenant  Colonel  of  Militia. 
Inventory  of  Joseph  Harwood,  deceased,  filed. 
Will  of  Major  Samuel  Harwood  proved  by  the  confession  of  his 
son  Samuel  Harwood,  Jr.,  to  have  been  burnt  and  destroyed  by  said 
S.  H.  Jr.,  since  his  father's  death. 

June  1737. 
Present  :    Henry  Soane,  Francis  Hardyman,  Benjamin  Harrison, 
Samuel  Harwood,  Jr.,  and  James  Eppes,  justices. 
Deed  from  James  Barret  and  Sarah  his  wife. 

Will  of  Littleberry  Eppes  presented  for  probate  by  his  executor 
Thomas  Eppes. 

Deed  from  Jones  Stokes. 

Mary,  relict  of  Edward  Cocke,  deceased,  came  into  Court  and 
made  oath  that  he  died  intestate. 

After  taking  the  depositions  of  Samuel  Harwood  the  eldest,  and 
Samuel  Harwood  son  of  Thomas  Harwood,  the  Court  ordered  that 
Samuel  Harwood  son  and  heir  of  Major  Samuel  Harwood,  deceased, 
bring  into  Court  the  last  will  of  the  decedant. 

Suit,  John  Ravenscroft  vs  Richard  Holland. 

Suit,  Richard  Holland  vs  Richard  Kennon,  administrator  of  Joseph 
Harwood,  deceased. 

July  1737. 
Samuel  Harwood  the  eldest  and  Samuel  Harwood  Jr. ,  son  of  Thom- 
as Harwood,  deceased,  being  summoned  by  a  former  order  to  disclose 
what  they  knew  of  the  will  of  Major  Samuel  Harwood,  deceased,  Samuel 
Harwood,  the  son  and  heir  of  the  deceased,  produces  a  writing  which  he 
makes  oath  is  the  memorandum  of  the  will. 

August  1737. 
Francis  Dancey,  Justice. 
Edward  Pegram,  a  youth  resident  in  the  covmty. 

October  1737. 
John  Williams,  John  Mingo  are  appointed  justices.     Captain  Sam- 
uel Harwood,  Jr.,  appointed  sheriff. 

John  Eppes,  son  amd  orphan  of  John  and  Tabitha  Eppes,  deceased, 
chose  Col.  B.  Harrison,  his  guardian. 

April  1740. 
Edmund  Eppes,  Captain,  qualified  as  a  militia  officer,  and  Edmund 
Eppes  and  Francis  Dancey  qualified  as  justices. 

Will  of  James  Eppes,  proved  by  Edmund  Eppes,  executor. 

May  1740. 
Samuel  Harwood,  and  Samuel  Harwood,  Jr.,  justices. 
Inventory  of  John  Eppes,  deceased,  recorded. 


86  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

June  1740. 
Captain  Samurl  Harwood,  of  Toryham,  appointed  to  take  the 
tithables  in  Wilmington  precinct. 

July  1740. 
Will  of  Henry  Edloe  presented  by  James  Edloe,  executor. 

August  1740. 
Petition  of  John  Donaldson  for  administration  on  the  estate  of 
Thomas  Gressit. 

Stephen  Dewey  "His  Maj.  Attorney  General  for  this  County." 
Edward  Terrill  presented  for  not  going  to  church. 

July  1741. 
Suit,  Robert  Poythress  and  Robert  and  Thomas  Poythress,  ex- 
ecutors of  Joshua  Poythress,  deceased,  ts  Benjamin  Harrison. 
August  1741. 
Edmund  Eppes  produces  a  commission  from  Hon.  James  Blair, 
President,  to  be  captain  of  a  troop  of  horse,  and  qualifies. 
David  Stokes  qualifies  as  Captain  of  foot. 

William  Irby  qualifies  as  Captain  and  Richard  Walton  as  Ensign. 
Francis  Dancey  produces  a  commission  from  Hon.  James  Blair, 
Esq.  to  be  sheriflF  and  qualifies. 

The  will  of  Francis  Hardyman  proved  by  Richard  Kennon  and 
David  Stokes,  two  of  the  executors  (A  Francis  Hardyman  had  been  fore- 
man of  a  jury  at  this  term  of  Court). 

Nov.  1741. 
Deposition  of  Abraham  Archer,  of  York  Co.,  aged  about  49. 

Dec.  1741. 
Deed  from  Mr.  Samuel  Harwood,  Jr.,  of  Weyanoke,  and  consent 
of  his  wife  Agnes. 

Feb.  1741  [Old  Style! 
On  the  motion  of  John  Hardyman  he  is  appointed  guardian  to  his 
brother  Littlebury  Hardyman,  orphan  of  Famcis  Hardyman,  deceased. 
March  1741. 
The  last  will  of  Col.  Drury  Stith  proved  by  Susanna  and  William 
Stith,  two  of  the  executors. 

Jane  Hardyman  appointed  guardian  of  her  two  children  James  and 
Martha  Hardyman  children  of  her  deceased  husband,  Francis  Hardy- 
man. 

April  1742. 
Will  of  Peter  Talbot  proved. 

May  1742. 
George  Baskervylle,  Francis  and  John  Hardyman,  &c.  on  grand 
jury. 

June  1742. 
Jane  Hardyman  summoned  to  produce  a  fuller  accoimt  of  the  estate 
of  John  Cross,  her  former  husband. 

(to  be  continued.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  87 

Richard  C.  Anderson. 

In  the  Virginia  Magazine  Vol.  XX,  No.  2,  April  1912,  p.  191,  it  is 
made  to  appear  that  Richard  C.  Anderson  was  Major  in  the  6th  Virginia 
Feb.  10,  1778. 

He  never  was  in  the  sixth. 

"Department  of  State, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Richard  C.  Anderson,  Captain  Commanding  5th  Regiment  2d, 
June,  1778,"  W.  Hunter,  2d  Assist.  Sec'y-  Commission  (which  Heitman 
says  he  saw)  Richard  C.  Anderson,  Major  1st  Va.  to  date  from  Feb.  10, 
1778,  issued  at  Philadelphia  20th  March  1779,  by  His  Ex'cy  John  Jay. 

He  went  into  the  1st  Virginia  and  remained  as  a  Major  of  the  1st 
until  after  the  war  (having  for  a  few  weeks  obtained  permission  to  be  Ad- 
jutant-General for  General  Nelson)  — Edward  L.  Anderson. 


Virginia  Soldiers  in  the  Revolution. 

It  is  again  a  subject  of  regret  that  pressure  of  other  work  compels 
Messrs  Flagg  and  Waters  to  postpone  their  next  instalment  to  the  April 
Number. 


Poindexter— Jones. 

In  vol.  XX  No.  2.  April  1912,  this  Mag.  p.  222,  last  paragraph  is 
found  "Thomas  Poindexter,  justice  of  Louisa  county,  1766,  married  Lucy, 

daughter  of  Gabriel  Jones,   'the  Valley  Lawyer,'  and   had  issue: 1, 

John,  2.     Thomas,  bom  1760, 3.     Gabriel,  born  1758." 

I  have  seen  a  number  of  publications  giving  a  brief  sketch  of  this 
Gabriel  Jones,  and  naming  his  children,  but  I  have  never  before  read 
that  he  had  a  daughter  named  Lucy.  It  would  have  been  impossible  for 
a  daughter  of  his  to  have  been  a  mother  in  1758  or  in  1760,  for  the  reason 
that  he  did  not  marry  until  1749.  (see  Publications  Southern  History 
Association  vol.  II  No.  2.  April  1898,  pp.  157-158;  Buckncrs  of  Virginia 
and  allied  families  of  Strother  and  Ashby,  by  Crozier,  pp.  222-223. 

Margaret  Strother,  daughter  of  William  StrotherS  (Wm.^,  Wm.  0. 
and  Margaret  Watts,  married  first,  George  Mason,  April  6,  1744,  (see 
Overwharton  Parish  Register,  Stafford  County),  married  second,  Gab- 
riel Jones,  "The  Valley  Lawyer,"  Oct.  6,  1749.  (see  Annals  of  Augusta 
County,  Va.,  by  James  A.  Waddell,  Supplement  1888.  pp.  392-3.) 

There  were  several  different  Gabriel  Joneses  in  Virginia  during  the 
lifetime  of  "The  Valley  Lawyer."  Capt.  Gabriel  Jones  lived  in  Culpcper 
county  where  he  died  in  1777,  testate,  and  I  have  just  received  from  the 
records  at  Culpeper  C.  H.,  a  brief  abstract  of  his  will  as  follows 


OS  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Will  Book  'B'  pp.  229-230,  will  of  Gabriel  Jones,  date, 
3rd.  Sept.  1776,  Mentions  Ann  Waller  as  grandmother  of  Arm 
Jones,  his  daughter.  If  said  Ann  dies  without  issue  her  part 
to  be  divided  between  my  living  wife  and  four  children," — 
Robert,  Gabriel,  Francis  Slaughter,  Mary.  "In  case  all 
die  without  issue  I  desire  the  same  may  goe  Descend  &  be 
Divided  amongst  my  four  sisters,  Lucy  Poindexter,  Betty 
Green,  Jane  Gray,  and  Dorothy  Johnston."  (signed)  "Gab- 
riel Jones  (L.  S.)" 

"Witnesses,  B.  Johnston,  Wm.  Hawkins,  Jr.,  Robt. 
Gaines,  Proven  Oct.  20,  1777."  (see  Notes  on  Culpeper  County, 
Va.,  by  Green,  Part  II.  p.  51.) 

For  history  of  this  Jones  Family,  by  Judge  John  W.  Jones,  see 
same  book.  Part  II.  pp.  89-94. 

An  honorable  descendant  of  this  Jones  family  was  the  late  Judge 
Wm.  C.  Jones  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  who  for  many  years  was  my  warm  per- 
sonal friend. 

Henry  Strother, 

Ft.  Smith,  Arkansas. 


Prince  Edward  County  tn  the  French  War. 

John  Morton,  Gentleman,  who  was  in  the  late  war  between  Great 
Britain  and  France  a  Lieutenant  in  the  company  of  volunteers.  By  order 
from  Governor  Dinwiddie  joined  Major  Andrew  Lewis'  detachment  from 
the  first  Virginia  Regiment  of  Regulars  raised  in  the  then  Colony  now 
Commonwealth,  came  into  Court  and  made  oath  that  he  was  an  inhab- 
itant of  Virginia,  and  that  he  served  in  the  office  aforesaid,  and  that  this 
is  the  first  time  of  his  making  claim  to  lands  under  the  King  of  Great 
Britain's  Proclamation  of  October  1763,  or  obtaining  a  certificate  there- 
for, and  that  during  his  continuance  in  the  service  he  was  governed  by 
the  Articles  of  War  which  governed  regular  soldiers  and  received  pay  as 
of  Lieutenant  of  Regulars.     Ordered  that  the  same  be  certified. 

Thomas  Morton,  2nd  Lieutenant  in  same  service,  made  oath  to 
the  same  as  above.     Ordered  that  the  same  be  certified. 

Alexander  Le  Grand,  a  sergeant  in  same  service,  made  oath  to  the 
same  as  above.     Ordered  that  the  same  be  certified. 

Richard  Foster,  a  private  in  the  (Company)  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Overton,  proved  in  open  court  that  he  is  a  native  of  Virginia, 
that  he  continued  in  the  service  during  the  time  of  his  enlistment  and 
that  this  is  the  first  time  of  making  claim  to  lands  under  the  King  of 
Great  Britain's  Proclamation  of  October  1763  before  any  court  of  record 
or  of  obtaining  a  certificate,  therefore  ordered  that  the  same  be  certified. 

Henry  Pigg,  a  private  in  the  Second  Virginia  Regiment,  made 
oath,  &c.  &c. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  89 

Joseph  Truman,  a  private  in  Captain  Obediah  Woodson's  Company 
of  Vulunteers,  came  into  Court  and  made  oath,  &c.  &c.  Order  Book, 
Prince  Edward  County,  January  Court,  1780,  P.  67. 

Freeman  Lewelling,  John  Gaulding,  Charles  Howell,  James  Fos- 
ter, privates  in  the  command  of  the  late  Honble  William  Byrd,  Esqr., 
assign  their  rights  to  lands  (under  the  proclamation  or  the  King  of  Great 
Britain,  October  1763),  to  Robert  Goode  Gent. 

Jeremiah  Penix  (Penick)  heir  at  law  of  Edward  Penix,  private  under 
the  command  of  the  late  Honble  William  Byrd,  Esquire,  assigns  his 
right  to  his  brother's  land,  under  proclamation  of  October  1763,  to 
Robert  Goode.  Order  Book,  Prince  Edward  County,  February  Court, 
1780,  p.  68. 

Declarations  of  :  Jonathan  Smith,  1st  Lieutenant,  John  Petty, 
[?1,  and  Bryant  Mc  Dearmonroe,  privates  in  the  command  of  the  late 
Colonel  Byrd;  Samuel  Burton,  private,  in  Colonel  Washington's  com- 
mand; William  Carter,  Ezekiel  Hendrick,  Hezekiah  Coleman,  Daniel 
Murray,  John  Smith,  John  Tibbs,  privates.  Colonel  Byrd's  Command. 
Order  Book,  Prince  Edward  County,  March  Court  1780,  p.  69. 

Declarations  of  Philemon  Hawkins,  soldier  in  the  command  of  the 
late  Colonel  Byrd;  and  of  Charles  Hcrvey,  command  of  Major  Andrew 
Lewis,  in  the  year  1755,  Order  Book,  Prince  Edward  County,  April  Court 
1780  and  May  Court,  1780.    p.  73  and  p.  77. 

[John  Morton  and  Thomas  Morton  were  relations,  possibly  bro- 
thers. For  John  Morton's  services  id  the  Revolution,  see  Magazine, 
XVn,  305.  Richard  Foster  and  John  Morton  were  Charter  trustees  of 
Hampden  Sidney  College  in  1783.  In  1780  Richard  Foster  was  chosen  a 
vestryman  of  St.  Patrick's  parish,  Prince  Edward  County.  John  Gauld- 
ing, or  one  of  his  name,  is  still  remembered  in  Prince  Edward  County — 
there  is  a  jungle  on  Little  Buffalo  Creek  that  the  old  inhabitants  cal 
Galdentown.] 

Alfred  J.  Morrison. 


BAYLOR  LETTERS. 

[After  the  treaty  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britian 
which  authorized  them,  many  suits  were  brought  in  the  U.  S.  Courts  by 
citizens  of  Great  Britain  against  citizens  of  the  United  States  to  recover 
pre-Revolutionary  debts.  Many  of  these  appear  in  the  old  records  of 
the  United  States  Courts  at  Richmond  and  the  papers  recorded  in  the 
various  cases  contain  much  matter  of  interest.  The  letters  which  fol- 
low, down  to  the  letter  of  Edmund  Pendleton  are  copied  from  the  record 
of  a  suit  against  the  estate  of  Col.  John  Baylor,  of  "Newmarket",  Caro- 


90  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

line  Co.  It  is  evident  that,  when  copied  into  the  record,  portions  of 
the  letters  had  become  illegible.  The  Pendleton  and  Frere  letters  were 
furnished  by  the  late  A.  G.  Baylor. 

Col.  John  Baylor  was  bom  May  12,  1705,  and  died  April  16,  1772. 
He  was  educated  at  Putney  Grammar  School  and  Caius  College,  Cam- 
bridge; married  Frances,  daughter  of  Jacob  Walker,  and  had  (with 
other  issue)  a  son,  John,  bom  Sept.  4,  1750,  and  died  Feb.  5,  1808.  He 
married  Nov.  8, 1778,  It  St.  Olave,  Hart  Street,  London,  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Norton,  of  Gould  Square,  London.  Like  his  father  he  was 
educated  at  Putney  and  Caius.  The  relationship  to  the  Freres  was 
through  John  Norton's  mother. 

Col.  Baylor,  the  elder,  lived  in  a  manner  which,  followed  by  the 
troubled  times  of  Revolution,  hopelessly  involved  his  estate.  His  son 
on  his  return  to  Virginia  had  to  sell  much  property.  The  famous  Fear- 
nought was  only  one  of  many  horses  imported  by  John  Baylor,  Sr. 

A  genealogy  of  the  family  was  published  in  this  Magazine  VI, 
197&c.,317&c.] 

MRS.  FRANCES  BAYLOR  TO  JOHN  BAYLOR. 

Virginia  New-Market 

25.  May  1770 
My  dearest  Johnny, 

By  Mr.  Morse  I  rec'd  yr.  very  kind  &  dutiful  letter 
and  I  make  no  Doubt  it  would  be  very  agreeable  to  you  to  hear  oftener 
from  me,  but  when  I  consider  you  hear  often  from  yr  dear  daddy  &  well 
know  what  a  scribe  I  am  [illegible]  will  excuse  it. 

I  often  read  yrs.  to  Mr.  Baylor  [illegible]  greatly  to  find  what  an 
Improvement  you  [illegible]  made  in  yr  studies  and  could  I  but  see  you 
now  &  [illegible]  and  should  be  heartily  satisfied  but  when  I  consider 

5  years  absence  without  a  single  glance  it  almost  distracts 

me  but  my  dear  child  hope  to  God  all  will  be  for  the  best. 

If  you  are  to  be  away  I  highly  approve  of  yr.  going  to  Cambridge 
The  most  renowned  Seminary  of  learning  in  all  England. 

My  dear  it  does  give  me  more  Pleasure  to  hear  of  yr  health  which 
God  of  his  infinite  mercy  continue  than  I  can  express. 

I  have  by  several  appor's.  heard  that  yr.  affected  side  is  much 
amended  for  which  God  of  his  infinite  mercy  be  praised. 

I  am  extremely  sorry  you  have  been  disappointed  in  not  getting 
the  fine  choice  hams,  cyder  old  brandy  and  fine  Maderia  which  were 
packed  up  &  sent  to  Ayletts  Warehouse  for  you — you  may  depend  upon 
a  nother  attempt  this  year. 

Pray  finish  your  education,  my  dear  as  soon  as  possible  for  we 
all  cannot  bear  any  longer  without  seeing  you. 

I  shall  write  again  by  Capt.  Robertson.     We  caught  a  great  many- 
redd  and  Mock'g  Birds  but  by  one  accident  or  other  lost  them  all. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  91 

The  whole  Family  desire  to  be  remembered  to  you  though  none 
more  so  than  my  dear  Johnny  yr.  most  tender  &  aflfec'e 

Mother, 

Frances    Baylor 

From  Col.  Baylor, 

Virginia  18  July  1764 
Mr.  John  Backhouse, 

Sir, 
By  Capt.  Quincey  I  rec'd  yrs.  covering  acct,  sales 
and  Invoice  of  goods  with  which  I  am  highly  pleased  also  very  fine  horse 
Fearnought  who  is  much  admired  by  every  gentleman  that  he  is  a  very 
great  Bargain  &  had  he  arrived  one  month  sooner  would  have  been  much 
more  so.  Upon  the  whole  I  acknowledge  myself  much  obliged  to  Mr. 
Hales  and  yourself  for  yr  excellent  choice  *****  By  Capt.  Quincey 
I  send  you  forty  and  by  Clarke  ten  hhds.  of  choice  heavy  stem'd  Tobacco 
which  I  am  in  hopes  you  will  think  a  large  remittance  notwithstanding 
I  have  and  shall  be  oblig'd  to  draw  some  Bills  on  them  one  to  Mr.  James 
Bowie  for  £100  and  1  to  Capt.  Quincey  for  £40.  Will  you  not  be  aston- 
ished when  I  tell  you  that  I  have  £3,000  due  to  me  in  this  country  and 
am  oblig'd  to  draw  on  you  for  which  reason  I  am  determined  to  sell  most 
of  my  Horses,  Mares,  &  Colts  of  which  I  have  the  same  value  and  turn 
them  into  slaves— as  there  is  no  getting  cash  here  for  anything  else  but 
Bills  of  Ex's 

Poor  Virg'a  what  art  thou  come  to? and  held  in 

derision  by  the  merchants  of  Great  Britain,  particularly  those  of  the 
Metropolis  and  the  Factors  of  Glasgow.  Surely  this  will  open  the  eyes 
of  my  dear  countrymen  and  make  them  more  frugal  for  the  future.    *  ♦  * 

I  am  sorry  to  trouble  you  but  must  begg  (in  case  of  an  acct.  to 
the  Ma'h*  [Ship  Marlborough]  which  God  forbid)  you  will  "be  kind 
eneough  to  send  a  duplicate  of  my  acct.  of  sales  &  Invoice  by  Clarke 
that  I  may  know  my  fate. 

Let  me  entreat  you  to  lend  a  gracious  ear  to  my  Petition  in  be- 
half of  my  dear  Friend  Col'o  B.  Moore  *  *  *  *You  may  depend  my  as- 
sistance shall  never  be  wanting  towards  the  dispatch  of  yr.  ships  & 
perhaps  much  greater  than  you  expect  in  a  year  or  two  as  we  do  rise 
though  slowly  every  year. 

Be  so  good  as  to  give  me  yr.  opinion  of  Hemp  &  Bar  Iron  not  on 
my  own  acct  but  for  my  friend  Col.  Moore 

Yours  J.  B. 

The  following  order  is  attached  to  this  letter. 

3     "      4'D  nails.  4  pr.  girls  shoes  for  7  years  old 

10    "     lO'D     "  2  "  Morocco  shoes 

16    "      8'D    "  The  same  for  one  of  5  "      " 


92  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


3  ' 

"      20'D    « 

6  prs. 

boys  steel  buckles 

3 

«      4>D    « 

&CCC 

10 

"      8'D    « 

10 

«     lo'D    " 

3 

«    20'D    « 

200 

yds  best  white  Plums 

K?) 

100 

«                «            « 

550  Midg  cotton 

From  John  Parke  Custis  to  Col.  Baylor 

Abingdon  Aug  15th  1752 

Dear  Colo. 

You  will  confer  a  particular  favour  on  me  by  furnishing  me 
with  a  small  quantity  of  clover  seed 

If  I  am  not  mistaken  you  once  informed  me  you  grew  a  good  deal 
of  red  clover  and  offered  me  seed.  ****** 

I  will  thank  you  for  the  quantity  generally  allowed  to  an  acre  of 
good  land. 

Mrs.  Custis  presents  her  compts  to  yourself  and  joins  with  me  in 
presenting  them  to  Mrs.  Baylor. 

I  am  Dr  Colo,  your  affect  friend  and 
very  obdt  servt 

J.  P.  Custis. 


From  Col.  Baylor 


Mr.  Sam'l  Waterman 


Virginia  Sept.  4th  1765 

Virginia  Sept.  4th  1765 


Sir, 


By  Capt  Teason  I  rec'd  yrs.  accompa'g  an- 
other fine  Mare  from  Mr.  Hodghkins  to  whom  I  shall  write  fully  on  that 
head,  he  has  very  industriously  and  with  great  pains  collected  me  full 
satisfaction  relative  to  the  mare  you  so  kindly  sent  me  *  *  * 

Could  you  believe  that  Mr.  Backhouse  has    render'd  me  sales 
£5  per   hhd.  more  for  Tob's  made  on  the  same  Plantations  than  Mr. 
Cary  and  indeed  db'le  to  one  of  my  particular  Friends. 
How  comes  it  about  that  London  the  Publick  Mart  of  the  whole  World 
should  fall  so  short  of  Liverpool. 

I  am  not  unacquainted  that  you  have  large  consignments  of  Tob- 
'os  &  yr.  modest  refusal  in  making  application  to  me  endears  me  the 
more  to  you  &  shall  I  keep  the  mare  shall  make  you  a  proper  Remit- 
tance in  choice  stem'd  Tob'os  &  the  more  readily  when  I  call  to  mind 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  93 

what  our  good  secretary  has  inform 'd  me  that  mine  &  my  Father's 
par'r  Friend  Mr.  Haswell  was  yr.  uncle  &  whose  Memory  I  shall  always 
revere,  I  am  Sir  most  respectfully 

Yr.  much  oblig'd  &  Hble  serv't 

J.  B. 


From  Col  Baylor 

Virginia  Aug't  ye  28  1761 
Mr.  John  Backhouse 

Sir, 

My  last  was  by  Captain  Twentyman  in  which 
I  made  a  very  small  add'n  to  my  Invoice  &  then  wrote  you  that  I  should 
shortly  take  a  view  of  my  mountain  crop  from  whence  I  am  just  returned 
highly  delighted  with  the  pleasing  prospect  of  an  ex-ty  fine  crop  so  much 
indeed  that  it  has  enbolden'd  me  provided  Quincey  gets  home  safe  and 
there  should  be  a  peace  this  Fall  to  try  once  more  for  an  Ex'y  fine 
Horse  to  cross  the  Breed  of  Shock  [and  ?]  Sober  John  which  I  can  sell  to 
advantage  &  have  for  that  purpose  selected  a  few  out  of  the  Horse  Race 
list  one  of  which  I  should  choose — provided  he  is  at  least  15h  high — a 
good  Bay  strong  &  beautiful  «fe  high  spirited  (Here  follows  a  list  of 
horses)  4th  Mr.  Keeps  Genesis  *  ♦  *  *  He  has  a  fowl  sinew  &  as  such 
perhaps  might  be  had  under  200 — I  should  be  fond  of  him.  ****** 
With  your  appr'l  I  would  stretch  to  the  tune  cf  £400.  for  an  extraordi- 
nary one    ***** 

Should  you  think  fitt  to  grant  me  this  further  indulgence  it  shall 
be  everlastingly  imprinted  in  my  memory  &  as  we  are  likely  to  have  a 
great  crop  permit  me  to  advise  you  to  have  the  Malborough  here  early 
in  March  &  let  me  entreat  you  whether  it  brings  a  horse  or  not  to  have 
her  as  early  as  possible 

I  am  y'rs 

J.  B. 


P.  S. 

I  have  wrote 
to  Mr.  T  Hales 

From  Col  Baylor, 

Mr.  John  Norton, 


Virginia  Aug.  14  1765 


Dear  Sir, 


By  Capt.  Hooper  I  rec'd  yrs  &  am  much 
obliged  to  you  for  the  trouble  you  have  taken  ab'ot  Hemp-  &  Peach 
Brandy  but  mention  nothing  of  the  Duty  &  neat  Price  of  the  latter  of 
which  I  shall  this  year  make  about  7  or  8  hu'd  Galls  &  in  3  years  expect 
to  d'ble  it.  Excuse  me  from  answering  Jths  of  your  long  letter  relating 
to  Trade  interest  &  c.  You  well  know  the  great  aversion  I  allways  had 
not  only  to  that  but  also  to  writing  of  any  sort. 


94  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Capt.  Hooper  will  deliver  you  with  this  four  hh'ds  of  steme'd 
Tob'o  &  observing  the  great  &  frequent  congregation  of  weavers  ab't 
Westminister   should   be  very  of  one  were   I  not  so  deeply  in  yr  debt 

*  *  *     I  shall  leave  it  to  your  choice    *  *  * 

*  *  *  *  which  he  wrote  me  he  would  doe  in  a  few  weeks  after  you  left 
poor  Virg'a  The  downfall  of  which  seems  to  me  at  no  great  distance  un- 
less Manufactories  &  Hemp  added  to  the  greatest  Frugality  &  Industry 
can  save  us. 

We  all  join  very  sincerely  in  giving  you  &  y'rs.  joy  of  your  safe 
arrival  in  London  &  you  &  my  Dear  Sister  all  imaginable  joy  of  yr.  fine 
Boy  which  with  oilr  Loves  to  you  all 

Dr  Sir  y'rs. 

J.  B. 


From  John  Baylor  to  his  Father  Col.  Baylor 

London 

Feb'y  16  1770 
Hon'd  Sir, 

It  is  with  infinite  pleasure  I  acquaint  you  that  I  am  in  hopes 
to  succeed  in  my  present  intentions,  it  being  the  advice  of  my  Friends 
when  I  am  settled  &  which  I  hope  will  be  in  a  short  Time  will  give  you 
[illegible]  information  on  that  Head. 

Mr.  Morse  has  been  kind  eneough  to  promise  that  he  would  de- 
liver this  letter  safe  to  you  as  it  wou'd  be  a  kind  of  introduction  to  him 
in  our  Fami.y  which  he  seems  to  be  fond  of,  and  doubt  not  but  he  will 
comply  with  his  promise. 

By  Capt.  Fox  I  have  wrote  you  a  long  Letter  which  I  hope  will 
be  agreeable  in  every  respect,  it  chiefly  concerned  the  future  Plan  of 
my  Education  and  doubt  not  but  you  will  take  it  into  proper  considera- 
tion. 

The  taxes  will  be  repealed  except  that  of  the  Tea. 

I  have  nothing  more  to  say  at  present  worth  relating. 

My  Duty  to  my  Mother,  Uncle  &  Avint  Burwell.  Love  to  my 
Brothers  &  sisters. 

I  remain  dear  Father 

Your  most  Dutiful  Son 
pr  favor  of  Mr.  Morse  John  Baylor 

From  Edmtmd  Pendleton  to  Col.  Baylor 

Feb.  4,  1772. 
Dr.  Sir, 

As  I  thought  you  had  a  good  stock  of  wine,  I  supposed  th^t 
article  had  slipt  into  yr  letter  by  mistake  &  exam'  the  messenger  he 
s'd  you  had  bottled  wine  &  desired  if  I  could  not  send  any  wine  both 
juggs  might  be  filled  with  Rimi — From  hence  I  concluded  you  wanted 
some  common  wine  for  ordinary  use  to  save  yr  good  &  as  I  have  none 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  95 

but  a  little  in  bottles,  I  send  both  juggs  in  Rum  of  a  little  that  is  left  of 
my  old  Rum.  I  have  spared  you  the  small  jugg  for  your  own  use,  the 
other  is  not  bad,  but  not  quite  so  mellow. 

If  the  boy  is  mistaken  about  the  wine  and  you  are  out  I  will  share 
my  small  parcel  with  you  rather  than  you  shall  suffer.  I  should  have 
set  off  for  the  Assembly  to  day  if  the  weather  had  been  tolerable  and  shall 
go  as  soon  as  I  think  I  can  travel  with  a  degree  of  safety. 

The  General  business  of  the  country  and  not  any  particular  oc- 
casion calls  us  to-gether  &  I  suppose  the  General  Court  will  terminate 
our  sitting,  but  I  propose  if  well  to  visit  my  family  about  the  1st  of 
March. 

I  wish  you  sincerely  a  better  state  of  health  &  amDr.  Sr.  yr  affect- 
hble-Servt 

Edm'd  Pendleton. 

(Below  see  copy  of  an  old  letter  which  I  got  some  years  ago  from  Aunt 
Jane  Clayton's  in  Chesterfield  Co,  near  Richmond  Va.  and  it  is  from 
this  sourse  I  have  succeeded  in  renewing  the  acquaintance  of  some  of  our 
English  relatives  by  letter  after  a  lapse  of  nearly  eighty  or  a  hundred 
years.  I  have  heard  that  there  was  a  letter  grom  Miss  Susan  Frere 
written  from  Gibraltar  to  some  one  of  the  New-Market  family  about 
1830  but  that  so  far  as  was  remembered  no  one  answered  it. 

A.  G.  Baylor) 

(To  be  Continued) 


96  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


GENEALOGY 


THE  BRENT  FAMILY 
Compiled  by  W.  B.  Chilton,  Washington,  D.  C. 
(Continued.) 
Transcript  from  Record  of  Trinity  Parish,  Charles  County,  Maryland. 

Robert  Brent  and  Mary  Wharton  was  (sic)  united  in  the  holy 
Estate  of  Matrimony,  May  6,  1729. 

Mary  Brent,  Daughter  of  Robert  Brent  and  Mary  his  wife  was 
bom  September  the  1st,  1731. 

Robert  Brent,  Son  of  the  aforesaid  Robert  and  Mary  Brent  was 
bom  May  the  6th,  1734. 

Jane  Brent,  Daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Robert  and  Mary  Brent 
was  born  January  2d,  1736. 

George  Brent,  Son  of  the  aforesaid  Robert  and  Mary  Brent  was 
bom  May  the  3d,  1737. 

Susanna  Brent,  Daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Robert  and  Mary  Brent 
was  born  January  the  2d,  1739. 

Elizabeth  Brent,  Daughter  of  the  afores'd  Robert  and  Mary 
Brent  was  born  March  the  4th,  1740. 

Nicholas  Brent,  Son  of  the  aforesa'd  Robert  and  Mary  Brent  was 
born  November  the  1st,  1741. 

Francis  Brent,  Son  of  the  afores'd  Robert  and  Mary  Brent  was 
born  July  the  7th,  1745. 

Deaths : 

George  Brent,  Departed  this  life  Deer.  16th,  1754. 
Francis  Brent,  Departed  this  life  Dec.  17th,  1745. 
Susanna  Brent,  Departed  this  life,  March  4,  1739. 
Elizabeth  Brent,  Departed  this  life  Oct'r  17th,  1740. 
Nicholas  Brent,  Departed  this  life  Aug.  1,  1744.  (  ) 

Gen.  Joseph  Lancaster  Brent. 

Son  of  Wm.  Leigh  Brent  and  Maria  Fenwick.  B.  Charles  County, 
Maryland  Nov.  30,  1826,  Educated  at  Georgetown  College  where  he 
he  studied  law.  practised  in  Louisiana,  and  thence  removed  to 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.  and  practised  there.  Served  two  terms  in  the 
California  legislature;  he  returned  to  Baltimore  at  the  J  breaking 
out  of  the  war  and  entered  the  Confederate  Army  as  Major.  Rendered 
gallant  service  and  was  promoted  first  to  Colonel,  then  Brigadeer  Gen- 
eral.    At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  the  practise  of  the  law  in 


KDHKKT  .lAMKS    HHKNT 


GENEALOGY.  97 

Baltimore  in  partnership  with  his  brother  Hon.  Robert  James  Brent. 
In  1870  he  married  Rosella,  yovmgest  daughter  of  Hon.  Dtincan  Farrar 
Kenner,  and  his  wife  Nanie  Bringier,  dau.  of  Michael  Douradon  Brin- 
gier,  and  shortly  afterwards  removed  to  Louisiana  and  assumed  the 
management  of  large  estates  in  which  his  wife  was  interested — Served 
two  terms  in  the  Louisiana  legislature  and  was  President  of  the  State 
Agricultural  Society. 

After  his  return  to  Maryland,  about  1887,  he  was  made  deputy  gov 
emor  general  from  Maryland  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  wars  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Maryland  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution — Died  at  Balti- 
more Nov.  27,  1905  leaving  his  widow  and  two  children,  Dtmcan  Kenner 
Brent,  a  lawyer  in  Baltimore  and  Miss  Nanine  Brent.. 

He  was  noted  for  his  modesty,  his  gentleness,  his  purity  of  char- 
acter and  his  devotion  to  duty. 

Vivian  Brent. 

Vivian  Brent  youngest  son  of  William  Leigh  and  Maria  Fenwick 
Brent  was  bom  at  Pamonkey  the  old  Fenwick  estate  in  Charles  County, 
Maryland  on  the  22d  of  March  1831.  When  young  he  went  to  Lousiana 
with  his  parents,  and  later  was  sent  to  Georgetown  College  for  his  ed- 
ucation. In  1849  he  entered  the  law  office  of  his  distinguished  brother 
Robert  James  Brent  in  Baltimore.  He  practised  law  in  Baltimore  and 
in  Charles  Cotmty,  Maryland.  Was  editor  of  the  Southern  Maryland 
Independent  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  politics,  being  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  called  soon  after  the  war.  In  1882  Mr. 
Brent  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  as  Assistant  Attorney  in 
the  Interior  Department  and  thereafter  made  his  home  in  Washington. 
In  1888  he  was  offered  but  declined  an  appointment  as  Territorial  Judge 
of  Utah,  on  which  occasion  he  received  a  flattering  testimonial  from 
Mr.  Justice  Lamar. 

Mr.  Brent  married  in  1857  Josephine,  daughter  of  Col.  William  D. 
Merrick,  U.  S.  Senator  from  Maryland.  Their  children  died  in  infancy. 
Perhaps  to  this  fact  can  be  traced  the  devotion  that  existed  between 
Judge  Brent  and  his  niece  Josephine  Brent  Merrick,  the  constant  com- 
panion of  his  later  years. 

He  died  at  Hammond  Court,  his  home  in  Georgetown,  D.  C, 
June  28,  1906. 

(to  be  continued.) 


T  HE  BEVERLEY  FAMILY 
(continued.) 

Since  the  publication  of  the  account  of  Robert  Beverley,  of  "Bland- 
field"  (XX,  332)  several  copies  of  old  letters  sent  to  the  Historical  So 


98  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

ciety  a  number  of  years  ago  have  been  examined.  These  Copies  were 
sent  by  Mr.  R.  M.  Fowler,  of  London,  England,  who  had  inherited  them 
from  R.  McKenzie  Beverley,  of  Yorkshire,  the  last  male  descendant  of 
William  Beverley  (son  of  Robert,  of  "Blandfield")  who  settled  in  Eng- 
land. These  letters  show  that  Robert  Beverley  of  "Blandfield,"  was 
educated  at  Wakefield  School,  Yorkshire  and,  probably,  at  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge.  The  following  letter  is  addressed  to  Beilby  Por- 
teus.  Bishop  of  Chester  &  London,  whose  parents  were  Virginians. 
The  Nelson  referred  to  was  Thomas  Nelson,  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  McKenzie  was  probably  Robert  McKenzie,  formerly 
of  Virginia,  and  a  Captain  in  Washington's  regiment  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War,  who  became  an  officer  in  the  English  army  and  was  wounded 
at  Bunker  Hill.  A  Virginian  writing  shortly  after  battle  seems  to  be 
pleased  by  the  fact  that  "Bob  McKenzie"  had  been  hit — no  doubt  be- 
cause he  thought  he  was  on  the  wrong  side. 

Robt  Beverley  named  two  sons  after  his  friends  McKenzie  and 
Bradshaw. 

My  lord 

Through  the  channel  of  our  common  friend  Mackenzie  I  have 
frequently  had  the  pleasure  of  hearing  of  your  welfare,  &  of  the  civilities 
you  have  shewn  my  son.  I  have  at  the  request  of  my  friend  Mr.  Brad- 
shaw of  Daug  in  Lancashire,  formerly  of  Trinity  sent  my  second  son  to 
his  care  &  patronage — He  is  situated  by  the  recommendation  of  Dr. 
Can  under  a  Mr.  Andrews  at  Highgate  much  to  his  satisfaction — Both 
my  sons  will,  I  hope,  make  more  of  the  opportunities  thrown  in  their 
way,  than  their  father  did — As  we  grow  old,  we  discover  our  youthful 
follies,  but  not  being  able  to  remedy  them,  nothing  is  left  us  but  to  lament 
we  did  not  think  otherwise,  &  to  beg  our  chilren  to  observe  greater  cir- 
cumspection in  the  days  of  their  youth — 

Yr  former  pupil  Nelson  is  well;  he  continues  to  be  the  same  gen- 
erous, benevolent  man  as  when  you  knew  him,  &  is  as  well  as  myself, 
the  father  of  a  very  large  family. 

Having  proceeded  thus  far,  I  must  take  the  liberty  of  introduc- 
ing a  subject  of  another  nature,  in  w'h  I  wish  to  interest  you  in  behalf 
of  a  gentleman,  whose  honor,  probity,  politeness  &  understanding  hath 
rendered  him  for  a  length  of  years  one  of  my  most  valuable  friends — 
this  gentlemans  name  is  Power,  a  native  of  this  Country,  but  ed- 
ucated with  me  for  some  years  at  Wakefield  in  Yorkshire — After  his  re. 
turn  to  Virginia,  he  applied  himself  to  the  law,  &,  before  the  war  practised 
at  the  bar  with  very  considerable  applause  &  success — The  stoppage 
of  the  courts  of  justice  &  the  continuance  of  the  war  at  once  cut  off  his 
resources,  &  he  was  thereby  induced  to  accept  of  an  agency  in  the  pur- 
chase &  adjustment  of  two  estates  in  London  &  Devonshire — Since  the 
peace  took  place  our  legislature  hath  thouglit  proper  to  make  a  discrim- 
ination between  those  citizens  who  left  us  during  the  progress  of  the  war. 


GENEALOGY.  99 

&  those,  who  remained  here — This  is  necessarily  an  impediment  to  Mr. 
Power's  return,  &. deprives  him  at  once  of  those  opportunities,  w'h  his 
abilities  &  connexions  here  induced  him  to  calculate  upon.  I  must  there- 
fore request  you,  if  it  lies  in  your  way,  to  assist  in  procuring  some  civil 
appointment  for  him — He  will  himself  explain  the  particulars,  &  in  so 
doing,  you  will  serve  a  worthy  man,  &  confer  a  lasting  obligation 
on,  My  dear  Lord, 

Your  Lordships  most  obed't 
Robert  Beverley 
Blandfield  Virginia  25  Nov.  1784. 

This  letter  is  addressed  as  follows 

Right  rev'd  Beilby  Porteus  Bishop  of  Chester — 

There  is  a  memorandum  on  the  back  in  M'r  R.  M.  Beverley's  wiiting. 
N.  B.     This  letter  proves  that  R.  Beverley 
father  of    W.    Beverley  was   educated   at 
Wakefield.  Yorkshire. 

The  other  letters  are  to  his  son  William. 

A  copy  of  a  letter  from  Robert  Beverley  to  William  Beverley — 
The  first  sheet  is,  lost. 

in  no  degree,  be  compared  to  the  base  servility  which  history  records 
in  the  days  of  the  worst  Roman  Emperors,  but  are  perfectly  consonant  to 
the  primitive  spirit  of  Belgic  republicanism  &  equality.  As  to  the  gen- 
eral bent  of  our  politics,  I  flatter  myself  they  will  continue  to  tend  to 
peace,  arts,  manufactures  &  commerce,  from  the  cultivation  of  which 
only  we  can  expect  to  flourish — 

Reports  say  that  G.  B.  is  again  entering  on  war — surely  they  are 
a  strange  people  who  must  eternally  under  the  idea  of  a  balance  of  power 
&  the  protection  of  commerce,  be  interfering  in  the  politics  of  every 
nation  on  earth — I  profess  not  to  be  an  adept  in  politics,  but  if  the  Brit- 
ish nation  should  spend  as  much  money  in  making  peace  between  Russia 
&  Turkey,  as  she  did  on  the  Nootka  Soimd  business,  Mr  Pitts  name  will 
not  stand  very  high  in  the  page  of  futurity — 

In  my  last  I  informed  you  that  my  boot  legs  are  not  yet  come  to  hand — 
The  encyclopedia  has  at  length  gotten  Mr  Mitchell's  trunk  as  far  as 
Rosegill;  in  a  month,  I  may  expect  to  get  them — I  must  request  you  will 
procure  the  saddles  mentioned  in  my  last  as  soon  as  you  can,  &  least  my 
former  order  should  miscarry,  I  now  repeat  it,  viz. 

a  saddle  of  the  best  &  plainest  sort  for  myself — the  top  skirt  short,  & 
the  lower  one  long,  sufficiently  so,  to  obviate  every  inconvenience  arising 
from  the  sweat  of  the  horse  in  the  hot  weather — the  padding  to  be  thick 
&  within  one  inch  of  the  lowest  part  of  the  skirt — polished  steel  stirrups 
&  neat  plain  bridle  with  steel  bits — a  good  portmanteau  saddle  &  pillion 


100  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

for  Harry,  with  skirts  &  padding  similar  to  mine — spare  paddings  & 
girths  to  each  saddle — with  wollen  saddle  cloths — Let  them  be  sent  by 
the  first  opportunity  to  this  river,  or  Norfolk,  with  duplicate  bills  of 
lading — if  by  the  way  of  Norfolk,  to  the  care  of  Mr  John  Cranberry, 
Mr  Andersons  correspondent  there.  These  saddles  to  be  made  precisely 
as  yours  were  only  that  the  underskirt  &  paddings  must  be  somewhat 
longer — 

In  one  of  my  former  letters  I  requested  you  would  take  in  a  paper, 
w'h  contains  the  most  foreign  &  domestic  news — the  parliamentary 
debates  engross  so  much  of  some  of  them,  as  not  to  suit  my  purpose,  as 
I  do  not  find  myself  much  interested  in  them — 

Present  my  most  affectionate  wishes  to  Mackenzie  &  Robinson, 
to  the  last  of  whom  I  will  write  by  Flynn,  &  assure  yourself 
that  I  am,  dear  William, 

Very  sincerely  yours 

Robert  Beverley 
Blandfield  15th  June  1791 

This  letter  is  addressed  as  follows 
Mr  William  Beverley 

London 
No.  2. 
Hare  Court  Dover 

Temple  Ship  L're 

Per  Boyd  / 
Capt.  Boyd\ 

Copy  of  a  letter  from  Robert  Beverley  to  William  Beverley 
There  is  no  envelope  or  endorsenent. 

My  dear  William 

My  last  letter  of  June  was  written  in  answer  to  yours  of  jan.  1st 
relative  to  the  provision  I  have  promised  you,  &  I  flatter  myself,  upon 
the  receipt  of  it,  both  you  &  your  wife  will  be  more  at  ease,  for  I  can 
with  truth  assure  you,  that  it  is  my  wish  you  should  be  so — Our  friend 
Bradshaw,  in  mentioning  the  frequent  miscarriages,  laments  you  not  hav- 
ing a  child  live  bom,  as  all  your  wife's  fortune  would  go  from  you — this 
was  a  circumstance,  w'h  I  was  not  apprized  of  before,  nor  indeed  have 
I  ever  been  able  to  guess  at  the  size  or  situation  of  that  fortune — some- 
times I  have  been  led  to  believe,  from  reports,  that  it  was  such  as  would 
enable  you  to  enjoy  every  convenience  &  comfort.  Be  that  as  it  may, 
I  should  hope  your  wife  will  make  every  provision  for  you,  which  she  can 
have  in  her  power. 

We  have  had  infinitely  the  wettest  summer  ever  known,  &  all  the 
wheat,  below  the  falls  of  every  river,  is  so  much  injured  both  in  quantity 
&  quality,  as  to  curtail  more  than  half  our  hopes — In  Culpeper,  where 
it  was  put  into  the  ground  in  proper  time,  it  will  be  better  than  usual, 


GENEALOGY.  101 

but  unfortunately  my  best  overseer,  from  the  circumstance  of  his  hav- 
ing a  good  crop  of  tob'o,  was  too  late,  consequently  his  wheat  yields 
nothing — the  wet  weather  too  is  unfavourable  to  tob'o,  but  has  given 
us  the  best  crops  of  com  ever  known.  I  am  just  returned  from  Cul- 
peper,  where  I  am  pleased  to  find  your  brother  Robert  is  devoted  to 
the  improvement  of  his  property,  is  become  quite  economi'^al,  &  seems 
quite  as  much  pleased  with  retirement  as  I  am — his  establishment  is 
small,  but,  with  frugality,  will  give  him  all  the  decencies  of  life;  &  when 
a  young  man  has  determined  to  create  a  family,  they  are  as  much  as 
anybody  here  has  a  title  to  expect — 

I  have  sent  a  cask  containing  eight  very  fine  hams,  w'h  are  as 
many  as  the  captain  would  undertake  to  deliver,  because  both  M'r 
Wormeley  &  M'r  Grymes  have  some  on  board,  &  therefore  it  would  not 
be  practicable  to  land  a  greater  quantity:  &  I  have  often  heard  you  say 
they  were  not  worth  the  duty — if  you  be  of  another  opinion  at  this  time, 
you  will  say  so,  &  you  shall  be  better  supplied — Your  mother  sends  you 
some  sweetmeats,  &  I  could  make  you  a  present  of  peach  brandy,  would 
the  captains  undertake  to  land  it,  or  you  should  think  it  worth  the  duty — 
our  excises  have  run  the  price  here  up  to  two  dollars  p'r  gallon  in  the 
stores — 

Sometime  ago  I  sent  an  old  shoe  to  the  care  of  M'r  Backhouse, 
which,  he  said,  he  should  forward  to  M'r  Anderson,  &  I  then  requested 
you  would  send  me  a  few  pairs  according  to  the  instructions  contained 
in  the  shoe — those  you  sent  last  were  too  wide — I  also  requested  a  coat 
&  four  summer  waistcoats,  which,  as  they  are  not  yet  made  I  beg  may 
be  lined  with  linen — you  know  I  wish  for  everything  cheap  &  plain — 
I  now  send  to  the  care  of  Messrs  Anderson  &  Co.  an  old  boot;  it  is  an 
inch  loo  long  in  the  leg,  &  greatly  too  large  in  the  ancle — the  calf  & 
foot  are  right— I  shall  thank  you  for  one  very  thin  pair  of  calfskin  boots 
for  the  summer,  &  another,  not  thick,  for  the  winter — they  are  both  to 
be  double  vamped,  with  turn  down  tops,  not  sewed,  a  loop  behind  for 
a  garter — the  leather  to  be  perfectly  soft  &  neatly  made — two  sets  of 
spur  leathers,  which  are  not  to  be  stuffed.     M'r  Anderson  will  pay  you— 

Our  politics  have  undergone  no  revolution  since  my  last,  unless, 
perhaps,  the  violent  or  factious  party  may  not  have  increased.  Should 
M'r  Jay's  embassy  be  successful  I  shall  hope  that  our  government  may 
acquire  a  little  stability— The  government  of  G.  B.  seems  to  have  or, 
possibly,  to  take  more  energy,  than  I  once  thought  it  possessed — Riot 
&  insurrection  seem  to  bow  their  heads;  Priestleys  excursion  hither,  & 
the  frequent  remittances  to  Botany  Bay  may  compose  the  minds  of  the 
people,  although  I  am  of  opinion  that  the  absurdity  of  M'r  Pitts  politics 
in  continual  armaments,  &  his  interference  in  the  politics  of  the  continent 
must  give  great  &  just  cause  for  national  complaint — So  stupid  am  I, 
that  I  have  never  yet  been  able  to  penetrate  into  the  greatness  of  his 
father,  or  himself — there  have  been  more  of  vanity  ostentation  &  a 
thirst  of  power  than  national  benefits — 


102  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

As  to  any  occurences,  w'h  may  have  fallen  in  the  circle  of  your 
acquaintance,  I  leive  them  to  your  sisters,  &  other  correspondents,  who 
will  detail  them  more  exactly  than  I  can. 

Present  my  love  to  your  wife,  &  assure  yourself  that  I  am  most 
sincerely  yours 

(signed)  Robert  Beverley 

Blandfield  22'  Aug.  1794. 

Will  you  enquire  of  M'r  John  Page  why  his  brother  has  not  sent  my 
annual  pipe  of  red  port — it  is  a  disappointment  for  madeira  is  now  so 
dutied  as  to  suit  wjery  few  purses  in  this  country — 

That  my  may  fit  me  as  well  as  possible,  I  have  taken  a  measure 
according  to  taylors  directions,  w'h  will  be  found  in  the  leg  of  the  old  boot, 
by  comparing  them  both  with  orders,  perhaps  they  may  be  made  to  fit 
me.  I  likewise  beg  that  you  will  send  me  a  saddle  of  the  best  materials; 
the  underskirt  to  be  longer  than  usual  &  the  padding  to  extend  with 
half  an  inch  of  the  lowest  part  of  the  skirt — &  this  padding  to  be  very 
thick — I  am  thus  particular,  because  you  must  remember  how  very  much 
we  are  incommoded  with  sweat  in  the  summer.  Plain  steel  stirrups  & 
buckles,  no  crupper — a  bridle  with  two  bitts;  no  heavy  or  unnecessary 
work,  &  the  reins  not  broad. 

I  wish  to  have  everything  made  of  the  best  &  plainest  materials — 
two  flannel  saddle  cloths.  You  will  recollect  that  our  horses,  generally, 
are  not  so  wide  upon  the  withers  as  in  England — six  yards  of  spare  girting. 

I  should  be  glad  of  my  boots  by  the  first  opportunity,  as  I  am 
much  in  need  of  them — 

(to  be  continued.) 


POINDEXTER    FAMILY. 
(Continued.) 
Sketches  of  Louisa  in  Olden  Times. 
Number  7. 

As  already  stated  Thomas  Poindexter  left  seven  Sons  viz..  John, 
James,  Robert,  Thomas,  Richard,  Gabriel  and  George  Poindexter. 
His  oldest  son,  John,  was  born  in  this  county  and  brought  up  in  the 
clerk's  office  under  the  instruction  of  John  Nelson  who  was  appointed 
clerk  of  the  court  in  1766,  succeeding  James  Littlepage  and  held  the 
office  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

I  shall  have  something  more  to  say  of  Nelson  hereafter.  John 
Poindexter  entered  the  clerk's  office  in  1773  and  served  under  Nelson 
until  1790,  when  the  latter  dying,  Poindexter  was  elected  in  his  place  by 
the  Justices  composing  the  County  Court. 

During  his  service  in  the  clerk's  office  other  young  men  were 
with  him  learning  the  business  of  clerks,  among  them  (though   much 


GENEALOGY.  103 

older)  was  Mr.  John  Timberlake,  the  first  clerk  of  Fluvanna  (1777,) 
who  held  the  office  between  thirty  and  forty  years,  and  was  then  suc- 
ceeded by  one  of  his  sons.  I  shall  say  nothing  as  to  the  Timbei  lakes 
as  their  connection  with  the  county  so  far  as  the  subject  of  these  sketches 
is  concerned  terminated  with  Mr.  John  Timberlake 's  connection  in  the 
clerk's  office  imder  John  Nelson.  John  Poindexter  held  the  office  of 
clerk  of  the  County  Court  of  Louisa  down  to  the  28th  day  of  September 
1820  on  which  day  he  died.  He  also  held  the  office  of  clerk  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  of  Law  from  the  formation  of  that  court  till  his  death.  For 
this  period  of  thirty  years  no  man  acted  a  more  prominent  and  con- 
spicuous part  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  county  than  John  Poindexter. 

The  idea  prevailed  then  as  it  does  now  that  the  clerks  of  the 
courts  knew  everything  in  relation  to  legal  proceedings,  and  hence  he 
seems  to  have  prepared  wills,  deeds  etc.,  to  a  very  great  extent,  show- 
ing the  confidence  the  people  had  in  him,  and  as  far  as  the  records  show 
(and  I  have  no  doubt  truely)  that  confidence  was  never  abused  by  him. 

In  1790  he  attached  him.^elf  to  the  Baptist  church  being  baptised 
on  the  29th  of  June  and  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  in  that  denomina- 
tion on  the  3rd.  of  February  1792,  and  was  chosen  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
Church  at  "The  Roundabout"  in  April  of  that  year,  and  continued  that 
relation  down  to  at  least  the  30  of  May  1814,  and  how  much  longer  I  am 
unable  to  say  with  accuracy. 

The  Roundabout  church  was  situated  about  eight  miles  south  of 
Louisa  C.  H.  It  was  burned  down  during  the  lifetime  of  John  Poindexter 
or  soon  after  his  death  and  has  never  been  rebuilt.  Only  a  few  persons 
of  this  generation  recollect  where  the  church  stood. 

He  served  other  churches  for  over  a  period  of  twenty-five  years, 
but  about  this  I  do  not  purpose  to  say  any  thing  as  his  services  as  a  Bap- 
tist Minister  are  stated  in  the  "Virginia  Baptist  Ministers." 

He  was  married  three  times.  His  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Green 
by  whom  he  had  only  one  child,  William  G.  Poindexter,  who  died  many 
years  ago  leaving  descendants;  among  them  the  present  wife  of  the  Hon. 
A.  R.  Holladay  of  Henrico  County,  Va..  and  the  late  Henry  Poindexter 
whom  every  one  in  this  County  well  remembers  as  one  of  the  best  in- 
formed, social,  genial,  and  good  natured  men.  He  deserves  to  have  a 
better  tribute  paid  him  than  can  be  done  in  these  sketches.  The  writer 
is  only  saying  something  in  reference  to  the  "Old  Time  Men." 

John  Poindexter's  second  wife  was  a  Miss  Johnson  by  whom  he 
had  the  following  children,  viz:  Nicholas,  John,  Thomas.  Andrew, 
Waller,  Lucy  Jones  (who  died  unmarried)  and  Mary,  who  married  Gar- 
rett M.  Quarles.  The  descendants  of  this  marriage  now  reside  in  Ken- 
tucky and  Tennessee.  Two  of  them  have  been  greatly  distinguished 
and  have  been  honored  by  their  respective  States  filling  most  important 
offices.  Nicholas  removed  to  the  State  of  Kentucky  and  died  there: 
many  years  ago,  leaving  children.  Among  the  sons  he  left  was  Georgo 
Gilmer  Poindexter  one  of  the  most  promising  and  rising  young  men  in 


104  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

all  that  Country  at  the  time  of  his  death.     Thomas  died  in  Virginia 
leaving  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

He  married  a  Miss  Schooler,  near  Fredericksburg,  Va.  Andrew 
died  in  this  County  unmarried.  Waller  was  married  to  a  Miss  Talley 
of  Goochland  County,  and  removed  to  Kentucky  where  he  died  years 
ago,  leaving  children;  their  names  are  not  known  to  me.  John  is  still 
living  in  Kentucky,  now  an  old  man,  and  if  these  sketches  should  fall 
under  his  eye,  he  might  supply  much  in  reference  to  the  Poindexters 
that  the  writer  has  left  out  for  want  of  accurate  information. 

John  Poindexter's  third  wife  was  Margaret  Maer  of  N.  C.  to  whom 
he  was  married  in  1813,  leaving  by  this  marriage  one  daughter,  Mrs. 
F  ances  E.  Thompson  who  now  resides  at  Louisa  Court  House.  His 
last  wife  survived  him  some  thirty  years  and  died  at  the  place  now 
owned  by  Mrs.  A.  W.  Talley,  in  1850.  The  writer  of  these  sketches  was 
at  the  fimeral  discourse  which  was  delivered  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mylne 
and  pronounced  by  an  old  college  friend  who  was  with  him  at  the  time 
to  be  one  of  the  best  discourses  he  had  ever  listened  to.  Mr.  Mylne 
and  his  college  friend  have  both  passed  away  to  that  "Undiscovered 
Country"  (This  by  the  way.) 

Elder  John  Poindexter,  (I  will  thus  call  him  to  distinguish  him) 
was  a  gentleman  of  the  most  decided  haracter  with  a  strong  and  vig- 
orous intellect  tinctured  to  a  great  extent  with  the  prevailing  ideas  of 
the  day  as  is  fully  shown  by  all  his  writings  now  extant. 

As  a  clerk  he  was  a  faithful  and  efficient  officer  as  the  records  fully 
testify;  not  however  drawn  with  the  same  accuracy  of  expression  and 
preciseness  as  those  under  Littlepage's  administration  many  years  be- 
fore. 

I  take  it  that  his  ministerial  duties  engrossed  a  good  deal  of  his 
time  and  that  in  making  up  his  records  he  was  more  impressed  with 
the  substance  than  the  forms  of  his  entries  in  the  records. 

This  can  however  be  said  thar  the  "Records  of  the  Court"  under 
this  administration  would  compare  very  favorably  with  many  of  the 
present  day  in  this  State. 

During  John  Poindexter's  clerkship  the  clerk's  office  for  a  portion 
of  the  time  was  kept  at  his  house  which  is  now  the  residence  of  Capt 
Wm.  Meade  a  grandson  of  Bishop  Meade,  and  known  as  "Winston  Hall". 
Afterwards  it  was  kept  at  the  present  residence  of  A.  H.  Talley  where 
Poindexter  lived  and  died.  He  removed  from  "Winston  Hall"  to  this 
place.  For  several  years  before  the  present  Courthouse  was  built  (1817) 
the  clerk's  office  was  kept  in  a  room  of  the  old  jail  which  I  mentioned 
:n  a  former  number  as  having  been  burned  in  (1866)  I  shall  say  some- 
thing of  tlie  brothers  of  Elder  John  Poindexter  hereafter. 
Copied  by  A.  B.  Mitchell, 

Port  Royal,  Va. 
Feby  25th,  1887. 
(to  be  continued) 


GENEALOGY.  105 

THE  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  ROLFE 
WITH  NOTICES  OF  SOME  CONNECTED  FAMILIES. 

[This  is  part  of  an  unpublished  and  unfinished  section  of  a  projected 
book  which  was  to  treat  of  "The  Colonial  Councillors  of  Virginia  and 
Their  Descendants."  The  biographical  portion  was  nearly  completed; 
but  the  account  of  the  descendants  of  John  Rolfe,  the  earliest  council- 
lor whose  descendants  can  be  traced,  showed,  even  though  this  is  not 
complete,  that  the  preparation  of  the  genealogies  would  be  a  work  which 
would  require  more  time  than  the  compilers  could  possibly  spare.  It  was 
not  proposed  to  reprint  the  later  generations  treated  of  in  well-known 
and  reliable  works,  such,  for  instance,  as  those  in  Robertson's  Descend- 
ants of  Pocahontas;  but  to  give  references  to  them.  The  plan  also  was 
that  where  one  branch  of  a  family  was  descended,  through  female  lines, 
from  one  councillor,  while  another  branch  could  trace,  also  through 
females,  to  another,  to  give  the  whole  family  under  the  earliest 
councillor  who  appeared.  This  explains  some  of  the  Flemings  and 
their  descendants,  the  Webbs,  appearing  here.  Some  of  the  Flemings 
descended  from  John  Rolfe,  while  others  traced  through  the  Randolphs 
to  the  Pages,  who  were  councillors.  In  addition  there  were  to  be  notes 
and  addenda  in  regard  to  connected  families  not  directly  descended  from 
any  member  of  the  Council] 

Rolfe  of  Heacham. 

The  family  of  Rolfe  was  resident  from  an  early  date  in  the  County 
of  Norfolk,  England.  The  immediate  ancestors  of  John  Rolfe  lived  at 
Hecham  near  King's  Lynn  in  that  County,  and  the  earliest  record  of  the 
direct  line  is  of  two  brothers,  Robert  and  Eustace  Rolfe,  who  were  bom 
at  Heacham  about  1539.  Robert  married  Margaret  Crowe  and  was  an- 
cestor of  a  prominent  family  at  Lynn,  and  Eustace  Rolfe  married  at 
Heacham,  May  27,  1560,  Joanna  Jenner.  Eustace  and  Joanna  had  a  son 
John  Rolfe,  of  Heacham,  who  was  bom  October  17,  1562.  married  Doro- 
thea Mason,  Sept.  24,  1582,  died  in  1594,  and  was  buried  at  Heacham 
Church,  December  1st  of  that  year. 

In  the  Church  is  a  brass  with  a  Latin  inscription  to  this  John 
Rolfe.     The  following  is  a  translation  which  has  been  furnished  us: 

"John  Rolfe,  gentleman,  of  Hitcham,  died  on  the  twenty-ninth 
day  of  November,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1594,  in  the  thirty-second 
year  of  his  age.  While  he  lived  he  was  of  much  service  to  his  fellows; 
his  wish  to  enrich  all  his  neighbors  and  kinsfolk  by  assisting  the  poor 
with  his  wealth;  nothing  could  be  kinder  than  he  was;  he  bore  the  in- 
sults of  many  men  quietly  without  oflFence;  by  exporting  and  importing 
such  things  as  England  abounded  in  or  needed,  he  was  of  the  greatest 
service,  inasmuch  as  he  spent  both  pains  and  labor  upon  it.  Thus  he 
seemed  to  die  as  the  force  of  fire  is  quenched  by  excess  of  water.     For 


106  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

his  Strength  was  unimpaired,  nor  had  he  completed  many  years  when 
he  died.  His  death  brought  grief  to  many,  but  he  had  done  nobly  upon 
the  consciousness  of  a  well  spent  life,  and  the  record  of  many  benefits 
not  allowed  to  die  utterly:" 

John  Rolfe  had,  no  doubt,  been  a  successful  merchant  at  Lynn. 

The  Heacham  register  shows  that  John  and  Dorothea  (Mason) 
Rolfe  had,  with  other  issue,  1.  Eustace,  and  2.  John  (twins)  baptized 
May  6,  1585;  3.  Edward,  baptized  Feb.  22,  1591.  There  was  another 
son,  Henry,  afterwards  a  merchant  in  London  and  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Company,  who  is  included  in  a  manuscript  pedigree  mentioned 
by  Mrs.  Jones  in  her  Old  Sandringham. 

The  Rolfes  of  Heacham  Hall  long  remained  among  the  gentry  of 
Norfolk.     One  of  them  was  sheriff  of  the  county  about  1760.     In  1837 
S.  C.  E.  Neville  Rolfe,  Esq.,  who  assumed  the  name  and  arms,  succeeded  , 
to  the  property.     The  well-known  portrait  of  Pocahontas  descended  to 
the  present  time  through  the  Rolfes  and  their  relations  in  Norfolk. 

Heacham  Hall  has  been  in  part  rebuilt  and  enlarged,  but  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  old  house  remains  and  is  shown  in  the  accom- 
panying illustration. 

Two  English  books  Old  Sandringham,  by  Mrs.  Herbert  Jones,  and 
The  King's  Homeland  contain  interesting  notices  of  Heacham  and  the 
Rolfes. 

(to  be  continued.) 


THE  TURNER  FAMILY  OF  KING  GEORGE  COUNTY  &c. 
(Continued.) 

When  the  first  instalment  of  this  genealogy  appeared  an  exam- 
ination of  the  records  of  Richmond  and  King  George  Counties  appeared 
to  show  that  Thomasi  Turner  had  only  one  wife,  Martha  Taliaferro. 
But  since  this  publication  of  the  last  instalment  Vol.  V  of  the  Acts  of 
the  (English)  Privy  Council,  Colonial  Series  has  been  received  and 
gives  the  record  of  a  suit  which  shows  that  Thomas  Turner  married 
twice  and  also  explains  his  unusually  large  gifts  to  a  daughter's  children. 
On  pages  128,  129,  under  date  1769,  is  entry  of  an  appeal  to  the  Privy 
Coimcil  from  Virginia  in  the  suit  of  Dixon  vs.  Turner.  It  is  stated  that 
Col.  Thomas  Turner  had  by  his  first  marriage,  two  sons  Harry  and 
Thomas,  and  by  his  second,  a  daughter  Sarah  who  married  Edward 
Dixon.  Harry  married  Elizabeth  Smith  and  died  in  1751  leaving  an 
only  child  Thomas.     His  (Harry's)  brother,  Thomas  Turner  the  younger, 


GENEALOGY.  107 

died  intestate  in  1747,  leaving  a  son  Harry  and  a  daughter  Sally  who 
married  Walker  Taliaferro.  The  record  also  states  that  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Turner,  wife  of  Harry  (son  of  Col.  Thomas)  had  father  and  brother  each 
named  Nicholas  Smith. 

The  name  of  Thomas  Turner's  other  wife  is  not  certainly  known; 
but  as  Sarah,  wife  of  Thomas  Turner,  of  King  George,  gent.,  released 
her  dower  in  a  tract  of  land  (formerly  bought  by  him  in  1725),  which 
he  sold  by  deed,  Spotsylvania  County,  Aug.  1,  1732,  the  second  wife 
was,  no  doubt  named  Sarah. 

Col.  Thomas  1  Turner  married  first,  in  1714,  Martha,  daughter 
of  Richard  Taliaferro,  and  secondly,  Sarah — 

Issue  (1st  m.).  2.  Harry^  (of  whom  later);  3.  Thomasz,  of  Spots- 
sylvania  Co.  He  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  that  County  in  1742,  married 
Mary  Taliaferro,  and  died  intestate,  according  to  the  English  record,  in 
1747.  This  probably  should  be  1757,  as  in  1753  Thos.  Turner  of  King 
George,  gent,  and  Thomas  Turner,  the  younger  of  Spotsylvania  Co., 
gent,  and  Mary  his  wife,  made  a  deed  in  Spotsylvania.  On  Nov.  7, 
1749,  by  deed  in  Spotsylvania  it  was  recited  that  Charles  Taliaferro 
the  elder,  late  of  Caroline  Co.,  by  his  will  March  2,  1734,  left  570  acres, 
called  Motts,  to  his  grandaughtevs  Mary  and  Sarah  Taliaferro, and  that 
Mary  married  Thomas  Turner  Jr,  and  Sarah  married  Francis  Conway. 
Thomas^  and  Mary  (Taliaferro)  Turner  had  issue  (a.)  Thomas',  alive 
1769,  no  further  information;  (b.)  Sally''  married  Walker  Taliaferro. 
Col.  Thomas'  Turner  had  issue  (by  2d  m.)  4.  Sarah^,  married  Edward 
Dixon;  5.  Mary^,  unmarried  1757. 

2.  Major  Harry^  Turner  (Thomas 0,  of  King  George  County, 
bom  — ,  died  1751;  was  vestryman  of  Hanover  parish,  clerk  of  King 
George  County  1742-1751,  and  member  of  the  House  og  Burgesses  for 
King  George  County  at  the  sessions  beginning  May  1742,  Sept.  1744' 
Feb.  1745,  July  1746,  March  1747,  October  1748,  and  April  1749.  H* 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Col.  Nicholas  Smithe 
of  King  George  County  (whose  residence  "Smith's  Mount"  is  now  in 
Westmoreland  County)  and  acquired  with  her  a  large  estate.  The 
will  of  Major  Harry  Turner,  if  he  made  one,  is  in  the  missing  King  George 
County  will  book;  but  the  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  is  still  on  record. 
It  includes  "a  parcel  of  books"  valued  at  £11.5;  5  maps  in  gilt 
frames  £3;  69  pictures  in  gilt  frames  £6;  silver  plate  £104;  2  sets  tea 
spoons  £4;  a  case  with  one  dozen  silver  haf  ted  knives  and  one  dozen  table- 
spoons £20;  66  negroes  &c;  total  values  of  personal  estate  £8,402.12.5, 
Dated  Sept.  6,  1753. 

At  "Smith's  Mount"  was  formerly  the  tomb  of  Mayor  Harry 
Turner,  bearing  the  arms  (as  given  on  the  book-plate)  and  the  follow- 
ing inscription: 


108  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

"Beneath  this  Marble 
Are  deposited 
the  remains  of 
Major  Harry  Turner 
1751 
And 
Elizabeth  his  wife 
1752 
Who  with  Credit  and  Esteem 
Possessed  and  enjoyed 
An  Ample  Fortvme 
From  which  Unerring  Wisdom 
Thought  fit  to  snatch  them 
In  their  Bloom 
Together  with  three  Sons 
Who  all  dyed 
In  their  infancy" 

This  tomb  has  been  now  removed  to  the  Episcopal  Chapel  at 
Port  Conway,  King  George. 

Harry  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Turner  had  issue,  to  survive,  an  only 
son:  6.  Thomas-^  ((of  whom  later) 

Col.  Thomas^  Turner,  of  "Walsingham"  and  "Smith's  Mount," 
bom  — ,  died  1787.  He  was  a  member  of  the  King  George  County  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  1771-76,  and  after  the  change  of  county  boundaries 
lived  in  Westmoreland  where  he  died.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of 
William  Fauntleroy,  of  "Naylor's  Hole,"  Richmond  Co.  His  will  was 
dated  Jvme  2,  17S7  and  proved  in  Westmoreland  County  October  30,  1787. 
Legatees:  wife  Jane,  daughter  Elizabeth  Cocke,  daughter  Jean,  young- 
est daughter  Mary  Turner,  to  eldest  son  Henry  Smith  Turner,  the  plan- 
tation called  Smith's  Mount,  to  sons  Thomas  and  George  the  plantation 
called  Nanzatico,  to  be  equally  divided,  to  son  Richard  the  plantation 
opposite  Port  Royal  adjoining  the  town  of  Port  Conway;  back  lands 
to  be  equally  divided  between  sons. 

Thomas 3  and  Jane  (Fauntleroy)  Turner  had  issue:  7.  Henry 
Smith*  (of  whom  later);  8.  Thomas*  (of  whom  later);  5.  George*  (of 
whom  later);  6.  Richard*  (of  whom  later);  7.  Jane,  married  William 
Storke  Jett,  of  "Walnut  Hill,"  Westmoreland  Co;  8.  Mary  (May)  mar- 
ried Turner  Dixon;  9.  Elizabeth  married  Charles  Cocke;  10.  Sally  died 
unmarried. 

(to  be   CONTINUED.) 

♦Nicholas 'Smith,  of  "Smith's  Mount",  Richmond  and  King  George 
(now  Westmoreland)  County,  was  long  a  wealthy  planter.  It  appears 
in  the  Records  of  Richmond  County  that  on  March  6,  1704-5,  Captain 
Nicholas  Smith  filed  a  claim  for  pay  for  the  troop  under  his  Command 


GENEALOGY.  109 

lor  services  against  the  Indians.  From  1705  he  was  for  many  years  a  Just- 
ice of  Richmond  Coimty.  He  died  in  1734.  In.King  George  County  on 
May  3,  1734  administration  on  the  estate  of  Nicholas  Smith,  gent.,  was 
granted  to  his  widow  Elizabeth,  who  gave  bond  in  the  sum  of  £10,000 
current  money,  with  William  Thornton,  John  Champe  and  Anthony 
Haynie,  securities.  They  had  two  children,  Elizabeth,  eventually 
sole  heiress,  who  married  Harry  Turner,  and  Nicholas,  who  died  unmar- 
ried. In  King  George,  Oct,  1,  1742,  Nicholas  and|Elizabeth  Smith  chose 
Thomas  Turner  their  guardian.  Dennis  McCartyjhad  been  the  guardian 
of  Elizabeth. 

Nicholas  Smith  Sr.  was  buried  at  "Smith's  Mount",  with  the 
following'epitaph : 

"Here  lies  the  body  of  Colo.  Nicholas  Smith,  Son  ofjNicholas  and 
and  Efsob'ah  Smith,  bom  at  London  the  4th  day  of  Sepbr.  1666. 
Married  his  wife  in  the  23d  year  of  his  age  by  whom  he  had  no  child. 
Married  his  second  wife  in  the  year  1722,  by  whom'.he  had  three  children 
one  son  and  two  daughters.  Departed  this  life  18th  day  of  March  1734 
in  the  68th  year  of  his  age." 


110  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 


BOOK  REVIEWS. 


A^HisTORY  OF  Highland  County  Virginia,  By  Oren  F.  Morton,  B.  L. 

Author  of  "Under  the  Cottonwoods,"     A  History  of  Pendleton 

County,   W.   Va.    (&c.-&c.)    Monterey,   Va.,   Published    by   the 

Author,  pp.  419,  with  maps  and  nine  illustrations. 

A  county  in  the  heart  of  the  AUeganies  must  naturally  be  some- 
what apart  from  great  historic  events;  but  its  very  remoteness  and 
unlikeness  to  the  more  accessible  regions  to  the  east  add  an  interest 
to  its  history. 

It  is  a  remote  section  even  now  and  its  distance,  from  the  centres 
of  government  and  trade  along  the  Atalntic  in  early  days,  is  hard  even 
now  to  conceive. 

Highland  is  now  a  flourishing  county,  but  for  a  long  period  its 
people  were  almost  the  most  advanced  pioneers,  so  that  its  history  and 
the  life  of  its  people  are  different,  from  those  of  most  of  our  cotrntieS  of 
which  histories,have  been  written. 

Mr.  Morton  has  done  his  work  with  great  care,  and  from  the  open- 
ing chapter  on  the  topography  and  geology  of  the  County  down  to  the 
compact  genealogies  and  useful  appendices  at  the  end  has  made  a  model 
county  history. 

Frontier  Defense  on  the  Upper  Ohio,  1777-1778.    Compiled  from  the 
Draper  Manuscripts  in  the  Library  of  the  Wisconsin  Historical  So- 
ciety and.published  at  the  charge  of  the  Wisconsin  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the   American    Revolution.     Edited    by    Reuben    Gold 
Thwaites,  Superintendent  of  the  Society;  and  Louise  Phelps  Kel- 
logg, Ph.  D.,  Editorial  Assistant  on   the   Society's  Staff   (Seal) 
Madison,  Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  1912,  pp.  xviii,  329,  with 
index,  a  map  of  the  frontier  of  North  Western  Virginia    in    the 
Revolution,  and  nine  potraits,  fac  similies,  &c. 
The  Wisconsin  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
and  the  Historical  Society  of  that  State  have  again  drawn  from  that 
matchless  storehouse  of  Western  history,  the  Draper  Collection,  mater- 
ial for  another  valuable  book  on  the  history  of  the  country  bordering 
on  the  Ohio  during  1777-78.     Readers  who  are  acquainted  with  the 
Documentary  History  of  Dunmore's  War  1774  and  the  Revolution  on  the 
Upper  Ohio,  1775-1777,  will  know  what  to  expect  among  the  very  varied 
and  valuable  papers  published  in  this  book.     It  is  especially  of  interest 


BOOK  REVIEWS.  Ill 

to  Virginians  as  nearly  all  of  the  actors  in  the  events  described  were 
Virginians,  and  as  the  country  from  Pittsburg  to  the  Kanawha  was  then 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  this  State. 

The  notes  as  usual  are  of  great  value;  but  as  was  the  case  with 
the  preceeding  volume,  show  sometimes  a  curious  dislike  to  credit  Vir- 
ginia when  credit  is  properly  due.  For  instance  on  p.  2,  it  is  stated  that 
Fort  Pitt  was  garrisoned  by  British  troops  until  1772,  then  held  by 
Virginians  until  the  end  of  Dunmore's  War  and  afterwards  was  occupied 
by  American  troops  under  Col.  John  Neville.  Virginians  are  Americans; 
but  the  word  American  as  used  in  this  Note  in  contrast  with  British  and 
Virginian  can  only  have  one  meaning — troops  directly  under  control  of 
the  American  Congress.  This  will  no  doubt  be  the  idea  conveyed  to  any 
reader  who  is  not  informed. 

One  must  feel  that  the  Editors  have  been  somewhat  loose  in  the 
use  of  words  when  it  is  known  that  John  Neville  was  sent  to  Pittsburg 
(Fort  Duquesne  or  Pitt)  by  the  Virginian  Convention  on  August  7,  1775 
with  a  company  of  Virginia  troops  "the  said  company  to  be  in  the  pay, 
of  this  Colony  from  the  time  of  their  marching." 

Again  on  p.  5,  it  is  stated  that  Fort  Randolph  at  the  mouth  of 
Great  Kanawha  was  occupied  by  a  company  of  Virginia  Militia  under 
Captain  Matthew  Arbuckle  and  one  from  Pennsylvania  vmder  Captain 
John  Robinson,  when  the  very  reference  the  editors  give  (p  230  of  the 
preceding  volume)  is  an  order  of  the  Executive  Council  of  Virginia  (Feb. 
12,  1777)  that  a  company  be  raised  to  garrison  Fort  Randolph  under  Cap- 
tain John  Pvobinson.  His  company  was  raised  by  Virginia's  order  and 
he  had  his  commission  from  the  same  state. 

One  or  two  other  Notes  may  be  referred  to.  On  p.  176  it  is  stated 
that  the  origin  of  the  name  Staunton  is  unknown.  There  can  be  little 
doubt  that  the  town  was  named  after  Rebecca  Staunton  wife  of  Gover- 
nor Gooch.  General  Weedon  (p. 214)  died  according  to  Heitman  in 
November  1793. 


The  Descendants  of  Capt.\in  Thomas  Carter  of  "Barford,"  Lancaster 
County  Virginia  1652-1912. 

With  genealogical  notes  of  many  of  the  allied  families  by  Joseph 
Lyon  Miller,  M.  D.,  member  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  the 
West  Virginia  Historical  Society,  The  Filson  Club  (Ky.)  &c.,  Whittett 
and  Shepperson  Printers,  Richmond,  Virginia.  For  Sale  by  Dr.  J.  L. 
Miller,  Thomas,  West  Virginia,  pp.  388  with  164  illustrations,  portraits, 
views,  fac-similies,  Seals,  Coats  of  Arms  &c.,  with  full  index. 

No  Compiler  of  a  Virginia  genealogy  has  begun  work  under 
conditions  apparently  more  discouraging  than  did  Dr.  Miller  when  he 
undertook  an  account  of  the  descendants  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter  o£ 
Lancaster  Co.,  Va. 


112  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

The  surname  is  very  numerously  represented  in  entirely  uncon- 
nected families,  and  even  those  who  had  some  experience  in  tracing 
Virginia  family  history  only  knew  that  Captain  Thomas  Carter  was  a 
man  of  prominence  in  Lancaster  County,  and  that  there  was  a  vast  num- 
ber of  people  of  his  name  probably  descended  from  him. 

Captain  Carter  was  a  man  of  local  prominence,  and  his  descend- 
ants had  respectable  positions  and  were  generally  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances .  The  very  large  number  of  children  in  each  generation  naturally 
caused  much  subdivision  of  property,  and  prevented  the  accumulation 
of  any  great  estates.  As  Dr.  Miller  says  they  were  good  citizens,  lead- 
ing honourable  lives  but  with  few  exceptions  they  were  prior  to  the 
Revolution  not  people  of  prominence.  Not  only  were  there  numerous 
representatives  of  the  family  in  Lancaster  and  adjacent  counties;  but 
the  family  continued  to  increase  and  multiply  in  a  remarkable  way  and 
branches  spread  rapidly  to  more  distant  Counties;  and  later  to  other 
States.  Since  the  Revolution  many  of  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Carter 
in  his  own  and  other  names,  have  been  men  of  note  in  the  civil  and  mili- 
tary affairs  of  the  coimtry. 

Nothing  that  industry,  minute  care  and  careful  consideration  of 
evidence  could  do,  in  the  examination  of  public  and  private  records,  has 
been  spared  and  the  result  is  a  really  remarkable  genealogy. 

Industry  and  intelligence  have  in  Dr.  Miller's  case  (as  does  not 
always  happen)  been  rewarded  by  remarkable  good  fortune  in  the  dis- 
covery of  old  family  records  in  Bibles,  prayer-books,  manuscript  accounts 
prepared  years  ago,  old  portraits  and  similar  aids  to  genealogy. 

The  book  is  thoroughly  well  vione,  and  will  be  of  great  interest  to 
hundreds  of  families.  It  is  imposible  in  our  space  to  give  even  a  list  of 
families  treated,  in  varying  degrees  of  fullness. 

There  is  a  good  index  and  many  illustrations. 


OFFICERS  AND  MEMBERS 

OF  THE 

Virginia   Historical   Society 

JANUARY.  1913. 


President. 

W.  Gordon  McCabe,  Richmond,  Va. 

Vice-Presiden  ts. 

Archer  Anderson,  Richmond,  Va. 
Edward  V.  Valentine,  Richmond,  Va, 
Lyon  G.  Tyler,  Williamsburg,  Va. 

Corres^nding  Secretary  and  Librarian, 

William  G.  Stanard,  Richmond,  Va. 

Recording  Secretary. 

D.  C.  Richardson,  Richmond,  Va. 

Treasurer. 

Robert  A.  Lancaster,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Executive  Committee. 

C.  V.  Meredith,  Richmond,  Va.      Wm.  H.  Palmer,  Richmond,  Va. 
Chas.  W.  Kent,  University  of  Va.  Rt.Rev.A.M.RANDOLPH,  Norfolk.Va. 
W.  Meade  Clark,  Richmond,  Va.   J.  Stewart  Bryan,  Richmond,  Va. 
A.  C.  Gordon,  Staunton,  Va.  Daniel  Grinnan,  Richmond,  Va. 

S.  S.  P.  Patteson,  Richmond,  Va.     J.  P.  McGuire,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 
S.  H.  Yonge,  Richmond,  Va.  Wm.  A.  Anderson,  Lexington,  Va. 

and,  ex-officio,  the  President,  Vice-Presidents,  Secretaries 
and  Treasurer. 


The  Annual  Meeting  of  this  Society 
will  be  held  in  January,  1913.  The 
Proceedings  of  the  Meeting  will  be 
published  in  the  April  Magazine. 


LIST  OF  MEMBERS 


HONORARY  MEMBERS- 


Arber,  Prof.  Edward,"  Birmingham,  Eng. 
Gabert.  Hon.  J.  W..  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Keane,  Prof.  A.  H.,  London,  Eng. 
Stevens,  Dr.  H.  Morse.  University  of  Cal, 


CORRESPONDING  MEMBERS. 


Atrill,  Chas.  H.,  London,  Eng. 

Bacon,  H.  P.,  Bury  St.  Edmund,  Eng. 

Banks,  Chas.  E..  M.  D, 

Barber,  E.  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa, 

Bryant,  H.  W.,  Portland,  Maine. 

Campeau.  Hon..  F.  R.  E..  Ottawa,  Can. 

Champlin,  J.  D.,  Jr.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Craig,  Isaac,  Alleghany,  Pa. 

Green,  Hon.  S.  A..  M.  D..  Boston,  Mass. 

Hart,  Chas.  H.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Hayden.  Rev.  H,  E.,  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 


Hoes,  Rev.  R.  R..  Washington,  D.  C. 
Judah.  George  P..  Spanish  Town.  Jamaica. 
Nicholson,  Col.  J.  P..  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Phillimore.  W.  P.  W..  London.  Eng. 
Richemond,  Mons.  Meschinet  De.  La  Ro. 

chelle,  France. 
Rose.  Josiah,  London,  Eng. 
Ross.  Hon.  D.  A.,  Quebec.  Can. 
Thwing.  E.  P..  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 
Wright,  W.  H.  K.,  Plymouth,  Eng. 


LIFE  MEMBERS 


Adams,  Gilmer  S.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Adams,  Wm.  Newton,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Alexander,  H.  M..  New  York.  N.  Y. 

Andrews,  A.  B.,  Jr.,  Raleigh.  N.  C. 

Andrews.  O..  Baltimore,  Md. 

Bagnell,  Mrs.  Wm.,  St.  Louis.  Mo. 

Barksdale,  H.  M.,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Barratt,  Judge  Norris  S.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Blackwel!,  Henry,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Bryan,  Jonathan,  Richmond,  Va. 

Bryan,  Robert  C,  Richmond,  Va. 

Bryan,  St.  George,  Richmond,  Va. 

Bryan,  J.  Stewart.  Richmond,  Va. 

Bushnell.  David  L,  Jr.,  University  of  Vir- 
ginia. 

Cabell,  J.  Alston,  Richmond,  Va. 

Childers,  Col.  Gracey,  Clarksville,  Tenn. 

Corbin,  Mrs.  Wm.  Lygon,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Cox,  Mrs.  Wm.  Ruffin,  Richmond,  Va. 

Clement.  Capt.  H.  C,  U.  S.  A..  Fort  Porter, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Clements,  Mrs.  Helen  I.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Cook,  Heustis  P..  Richmond,  Va. 

Deats,  H.  E..  Flemington.  N.J. 

Dooley.  James  H..  Richmond.  Va._ 


Downman,  R.  H.,  New  Orleans,  La. 

Garnett,  Judge  T.  S.,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Gary.  J.  A..  Baltimore,  Md. 

Gibbs.  Mrs.  Virginia,  B.,  Newport,  R.  I. 

Grafflin,  John  C,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Grandy,  C.  Wiley,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Gratz,  Simon,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Harrison,  Fairfax,  Belvoir,  Fauquier  Co.,Va. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phoebe  A.,  Pleasanton,  Cal. 

Hobson,    Mrs.    Henry    W.,  Jr..    Colorado 

Springs.  Col. 
Hughes,  R.  M.,  Norfolk.  Va. 
Huntington,  Archer  M.,  Baychester.  N.  Y. 
Ingalls.  M.  E.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Keith,  Charles  P.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Kinsolving,  Walter  O..  Austin,  Texas. 
Lee,  Edmund,  J..  M.  D..  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Lee.  General  G.  W.  C.  Burks,  Va. 
Lee.  W.  H.,St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Logan,  General  T.  M.,  Howardsville,  Va. 
Low,  Hon.  Seth.  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Mason,  Wm.  Peyton,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Miller.  Dr.  J.  L..  Thomas.  W.  Va. 
Mohler.  Miss  Edith  M.,  St.  Albans,  W.  Va. 
Morse,  Willard  S..  New  York,  N.  Y. 


IV 


VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


McConnick,  Cyrus  Hall,  Chicago,  111. 
Nolting,  Miss  Elizabeth  Aiken,  Cobham,  Va. 
Richardson,  D.  C, Richmond,  Va. 
Rives,   Hon.   Geo.  Lockhart,  New  York, 

N.  Y. 
Robinson,  Morgan  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Scott,  Judge  R.  Carter,  Richmond,  Va. 
Scott,  Frederick  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Stevens,  Mrs.  Byam  K.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Stiers,  Rev.  Ernest,  M.  D.  D.,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Stubbs,  Wm.  C.  New  Orleans,  La. 


Swanson,  Hon.  Claude  A.,  Chatham,  Va. 
Talcott,  Col.  T.  M.  R.,  Bon  Air,  Va. 
Waterman,  W.  H.,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
Webb,  W.  Seward,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Whitehead,  J.  B.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Wickham,  Henry  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Williams,  A.  D.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Williams,  Thomas  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Winslow,  H.  M.,  Harriman,  Tenn. 
Woodson,  Captain  R.  S.,   U.  S.  A..  Fort 
McDowell.  Cal. 


ANNUAL  MEMBERS.^ 


Acklin,  George  W.,  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 
Abney,  John  R.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Adams,  Samuel  P.,  South  Boston,  Va. 
Adams,  Walter,  Framingham,  Mass. 
Addison,  E.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Adkins,  S.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Aguilar  de,  Mrs.  F.  B.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Alexander,  F.  W.,  Oak  Grove,  Va. 
Alexander,  Dr.  W.  T..  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Allen.  E.  W.,  Savannah.  Ga. 
Allen,  Herbert  F.  M.,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Ambler,  Ben.  Mason,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 
Ames,  Mrs.  Joseph  S..  Baltimore,  Md. 
Anderson,  Col.  Archer.  Richmond,  Va. 
Anderson,  B.  P..  M.  D.,  Colorado  Springs, 

Col. 
Anderson,  Davis  C,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Anderson,  Edward  L.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Anderson,  W.  A..  Lexington,  Va. 
Andrews,  Prof.  C.  M.,  Yale  University,  New 

Haven,  Conn. 
Atkinson,  Thomas.  Richmond.  Va. 
Atkinson.  Thomas.  Jr..  Richmond,  Va. 
Austin-Leigh,  Richard  A.,  London,  Eng. 
Axtell.  Decatur,  Richmond.  Va. 


Bagby.  Mrs.  Parke  C.  Richmond,  Va. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Gibbs  L.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Ballard,  N.  H.,  Brunswick,  Ga. 
Barbour.  John  S..  Fairfax.  Va. 
Barton.  R.  T..  Winchester.  Va. 
Baskervill.  P.  H..  Richmond,  Va. 
Battaile,  W.  A.,  Lawrence,  Kan. 
Bayne,  Howard  R.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Beer,  George  Louis,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Beime.  Francis  F.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Bell.  Landon  C.  Asheville.  N.  C. 


Bell.Robert  O.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Belmont,  August,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Belt.  Mrs.  Eliz.  Talbot.  Millen,  Ga. 
Best,  Frank  E.,  Chicago,  111. 
Berry,  Mrs.  J.  T.,  Dallas,  Texas. 
Blackford,  Dr.  L.  M.,  Alexandria,  Va. 
Blackstock,  Ira  B..  Springfield,  111. 
Blaine,  Mrs.  E.  Robert,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Blair,  Miss  Louisa  Coleman,  Richmond.  Va. 
Blow.  A.  A.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Boatwright,  Mrs.  Gertrude  F.  H..  Roanoke, 

Va. 
Bodley,  Temple,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Boisseau,  Sterling,  Richmond,  Va. 
Boisseau,  P.  H.,  Danville,  Va. 
Boiling,  Blair,  Richmond,  Va. 
Boiling.  Stanhope,  Richmond,  Va. 
Bondurant,  Dr.  Eugene  D.,  Mobile,  Ala. 
Booker,  Mrs.  Hunter  R.,  Hampton,  Va. 
Boreman,  R.  J.  A.,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 
Bosher,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Boswell,  Mrs.  T.  Steptoe,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Bourgeoisie,  Mrs.  A.  C,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Bowles,  Henry  L.,  Denver,  Col. 
Boyd,  James  N.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Boykin,  Mrs.  F.  M.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Boyle.  Mrs.  P.  A.,  Davenport,  Iowa. 
Boyle,    Mrs.    Virginia    Frazier.    Memphis, 

Tenn. 
Bradford,  James  C,  Nashville.  Tenn. 
Branch,  Major  John  P.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Braxton,  A.  Caperton ,  Richmond,  Va. 
Brent,  F.  C,  Pensacola,  Fla. 
Brodhead,  Lucas,  Versailles,  Ky. 
Brooke,  George  D.,  Winchester,  Va. 
Brooke,  Richard  N.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Brooke.  Richard,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Brooke,  Robert.  T..  Birmingham,  Ala. 


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LIST  OP  MEMBERS. 


Brooke,  S.  S.,  Roanoke.  Va. 
Brooke,  Dr.  T.  V.,  Sutherlin,  Va. 
Broun,  Major  T.  L..  Charleston,  W.  Va. 
Brown,  Prof.  W.  G.,  Columbia,  Mo. 
Brown,  J.  Thompson,  Richmond,  Va. 
Bruce,  Hon.  C.  M.,  Clarkton,  Va. 
Bruce,  Philip  Alexander,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Bruce,  Mrs.  Mary  Howard,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Bryan,  Thomas  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Bryan,  St.  George  T.  C,  Petersburg.  Va. 
Bryant,  C.  B.,  Martinsville,  Va. 
Budlong,  Mrs.  M.  J.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Buford.  Commander  M.  B.,  U.  S.  N.,  Watch 

Hill,  R.  I. 
Bukey,  Mrs.  John  Spencer,  Vienna,  Va. 
Bullard,  Mrs.  B.  F.,  Savannah,  Ga. 
Bullitt,  W.  C,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Bvirges,  Richard  F.,  El  Paso,  Texas. 
Burnside,  Mrs.  Samuel  H.,  Wichita  Falls, 

Texas. 
Burruss,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Burwell,  Armistead,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 
Burwell.  D.  S..  Norfolk,  Va. 

Callahan,  G.  C,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Cameron,  Alexander,  Richmond,  Va. 

Cameron,  Col.  Benehan,  Stagville,  N.  C. 

Cannon,  G.  Randolph,  Richmond,  Va. 

Capps,  W.  L.,  U.  S.  N. 

Cargill,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Houston,  Texas. 

Carr,  Brig.  Gen.  C.  C.  C.  U.  S.  A.,  Chicago, 

111. 
Carter,  Hill,  Ashland,  Va. 
Cartwright,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Brooke,  Washington, 

D.  C. 
Gary,  T.  Archibald,  Richmond,  Va. 
Cary,  Wilson  Miles,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Casey,  Prof.  Joseph  J.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Chamberlayne,    Churchill   G.,   Richmond, 

Va. 
Chandler,  Prof.  J.  A.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Chandler,  R.  G.,  Chicago.  III. 
Chandler,  Walter  T.,  Chicago.  111. 
Chauncy,  Mrs.  Agnes  C,  Narberth,  Pa. 
Chilton,  W.  B.,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Christian,  Judi^e  Geo.  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Christian,  Walter,  Richmond,  Va. 
Clark,  Mrs.  Edward  H.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Clark,  Wm.  Hancock,  New  York,  N,  Y. 
Clark,  Rev.  W.  M.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Clarke,  P.  N.,  Louisville.  Ky. 
Clayton,  Joseph  C,  Brooklyn  N.  Y. 
Clement,  .Mrs.  N.  E.,  Chatham,  Va. 
Clyde,  W.  P.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Cobb,  Wm.  H.,Elkins,  W.  Va. 
Cocke.  Dr.  W.  Irby,  Port  Washington,  N.  Y. 


Coe  Brothers,  Springfield,  III. 
Coffin,  Charles  P.,  Brookline,  Mass. 
Coke,  Captain  John  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Coleman,  Charles  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Coles,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Colston,  Edward,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Conrad,  Major  Holmes,  Winchester,  Va. 
Cook,  Miss  Mary  E.,  Columbus,  Ga. 
Cooke,  Dr.  G.  Wythe,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Cooke,  John  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Coolidge,  Archibald  C,  Cambridge.  Mass. 
Corbin,  Richard  W.,  Paris,  France. 
Corbett.  Mrs.  L.  G.,  Greenville,  S.  C. 
Coulling,  Miss  Martha  Willis,  Farmville,  Va. 
Coutant,  Dr.  R.  S.,  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 
Cram,  Mrs.  R.  A.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Crenshaw,  S.  Dabney,  Richmond,  Va. 
Cridlin,  W.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Crittenden,  W.  L.,  Stigler,  Okla. 
Croasdaile,  Mrs.  Richard,  Canton, Ohio. 
Crocker,  Major  J.  F.,  Portsmouth,  Va. 
Crozier,  Wm.  A.,  Hasbrouck  Heights,  N.  J. 
Crump,  Beverly  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Culleton,  Leo.,  London,  Eng. 
Cutright,  W.  B.  Buckhannon,  W.  Va. 


Dabney,  Dr.  William  M.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Dabney,  Prof.  R.  H.,  University  of  Va. 
Daingerfield,  Francis  Lee,  Alexandria,  Va. 
Dandridge,  Miss  Mary  E.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Darling,  Mrs.  Frank  W.,  Hampton,  Va. 
Daughters,  A.  R.,  Auburn,  Ala. 
Daughters,  A.  R.,  Washington,  D,  C. 
Davenport,  G.  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Denham,  Edward,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
Dickey,  Lyle  A..  Lihue,  H.  T. 
Dismukes,  Elisha  P.,  Columbus,  Ga. 
Doran,  J.  J.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Doremus,  Mrs.  C.  A.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Draper,  Mrs.  James  R.,  Oxford,  Ala. 
Duke,  Judge  R.  T.  W.,  Jr.,  Charlottesville. 

Va. 
Dunn,  John,  M.  D.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Dupont,  Col.  H.  A.,  Wintcrthur,  Del. 
Durrett.  Col.  R.  T.,  Louisville.  Ky. 
Duval,  Miss  Maria  P..  Staunton,  Va. 
Dwight,  Dr.  E.  W.,  Boston,  Mass. 


E.-isley,  J.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
East,  John  P..  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Eaton,  George  G.,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Eckenrode,  Dr.  H.  J.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Ellctt,  Miss  Virginia  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Ellis.  Wade  H.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Ellyson,  Hon.  J.  Taylor,  Richmond.  Va. 


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VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


Empie,  Adam,  Wilmington,  N.  C. 
English,  Mrs.  W.  E.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Eskridge,  R.  S.,  Seattle,  Wash. 
Etistace,  Wm.  Corcoran,  Oatlands,  Va. 

Farragut,  Loyall,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Farrar,  Edgar  H.,  New  Orleans,  La. 
Feild.  W.  P.,  Little  Rock.  Ark. 
Ferrell,  Mrs.  Chas,  C,  Anson,  Tex. 
Fife,  Prof.  R.  H.,  Middletown,  Conn. 
Fitzhugh,  Gen.  Chas.  L.,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Fitzhugb.  E.  H.,  Montreal,    Can. 
Fletcher,  William  Meade,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Fontaine,  W.  W.  Austin,  Tex. 
Foster,  Mrs.  Kate  Calvert,  Fosston,  Minn, 
Fountain,  General  S.  W.,  U.  S.  A.,  Devon, 

Pa. 
Fox.  Fred.  L.,  Sutton,  W.  Va. 
Frances,  Mrs.  Charles  E.,  Bedford,  Ind. 
Freeman.  D.  S..  Richmond,  Va. 
French.  Jno.  Hemdon.  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Frost.  Mrs.  George  R..  Houston,  Va. 

Gaines.  C.  Carrington.  Poughkeepsie.  N,  Y. 
Garland,  Spotswood,  Wilmington,  Del. 
Gay.  Edward  S.,  Atlanta.  Ga. 
Gibson.  Rt.  Rev.  Robt.  A..  Richmond,  Va. 
Gilbert,  Mrs.  R.  M..  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Glover.  Rolfe  E..  Richmond.  Va. 
Good.  D.  Saylor,  Roanoke.  Va. 
Goodwyn,  Mrs.  W.  S.,  Emporia.  Va. 
Gordon,  Armstead  C,  Staunton,  Va. 
Gray.  Henry  W.,  Jr..  Hartford,  Conn. 
Gray.  W.  F..  Richmond.  Va. 
Green.  B.  W..  M.  D.,  Charlottesville.  Va. 
Gregory.  Edwin  C.  Salisbury,  N.  C. 
Gregory,  George  C,  Richmond.  Va. 
Grigsby.  Oscar,  Maysville,  Ky. 
Grinnan.  Judge  Daniel.  Richmond,  Va. 
Grinnan,  John  C,  Norfolk.  Va. 

Hagan,  John  C.  Richmond,  Va. 
Hamilton,  Alexander,  Petersburg,  Va. 
Hardy,  Miss  Stella  Pickett,  Batesville.  Ark. 
Harris,  A.  B.  B.,  Chicago,  111. 
Harrington,  Howard  S.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Harris  Alfred  T..  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Harris,  Graham  H..  Greenwood,  Va. 
Harris,  John  T..  Jr.,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 
Harrison.     Francis    Burton,     Washington, 

D.C. 
Harrison,  Geo.  T.,  M.|D.,  CharlottesvHle.Va. 
Harrison,  Robert  L..  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Harrison,  W.  Preston.,  Chicago,  111. 
Harvie.  Miss  Anne  F..  Richmond.  Va. 
Hawes,  S.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 


Heath,  James  E.,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Heffelfinger,  Jacob,  Hampton,  Va. 

Hempstone,  W.  D.,  Leesburg.  Va. 

Herbert,  Col.  Arthur,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Herndon,  J.  W.,  Alexandria.  Va. 

Higgins,  Mrs.  D.  F.,  Joliet,  111. 

Hill.  W.  M.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Hine,  Major  Charles  DeLano,  Vienna,  Va. 

Hogg.  Mrs.  Clara  H.  D.,  Cadiz,  Ohio. 

HoUaday.  A.,  Randolph.  Richmond,  Va. 

Holmes,  J.  T..  Columbus.  Ohio. 

Holt.  R.  O.,  Lorton,  Va. 

Hord,  Rev.  A.  H.,  Germantown,  Pa. 

Howard,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Washington,  'Alex- 
andria, Va. 

Howard,  Major  McH.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Hughes,  A.  S..  Denver.  Col. 

Hunt,  Gaillard.  Washington.  D.  C. 

Hunter.  James  W..  Norfolk.  Va. 

Hunter,  Major  Robert  W.,  Washington, 
D.C. 

Hurt.  George  F,  Atlanta.  Ga. 

Hutcheson,  H.  P.,  Boydton.  Va. 

Hutcheson.  Mrs.  J.  C,  Houston.  Texas. 

Hutchins.  W.  S..  Washington.  D.  C. 

Hutchinson.  Gary  T..  New  York.  N.  Y. 

Hyde,  Mrs.  Charles  R.,  Lookout  Mountain, 
Tenn. 

Jameson,  Mrs.  S.  W.,  Roanoke,  Va. 
Jarman,  Prof.  J.  L.,  Farmville,  Va. 
Jeffress,  T.  F.,  Drewry's  Bluff.  Va. 
Jenkins,  Luther  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jewett,  W.  K..  Colorado  Springs.  Col. 
Johnson,  B.  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Mary  R..  East  Orange.  N.  J. 
Johnston,  Christopher,  M.   D..  Baltimore, 

Md. 
Johnston.  Dr.  Geo.  Ben.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Johnston.  Miss  Mary.  Richmond,  Va. 
Jones.  Fairfax  C.  Richmond,  Va. 
Jones,  W.  Strother,  Red  Bank,  N.  J. 
Jordan.  Scott,  Chicago,  111, 
Junkin,  Francis  T.  A.,  Chicago,  111. 

Keach,  Mrs.  O.  A..  Wichita.  Kan. 
Keim.  Mrs.  Betty  L..  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Kemper.  Charles  E..  Washington,  D.  C. 
Kent,  Prof.  C.  W.,  University  of  Va. 
Kerr,  A.  E.,  Grafton,  W.  Va. 
Kinney.  Mrs.  Harry  W..  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 


Lacey.  Mrs.  John  W..  Cheyenne.  Wyo. 
Lamb.  E.  T..  Norfolk.  Va. 
Lambert,  Mrs.  W.  H..  Germantown.  Pa. 
La  Monte,  Geo.  M.,  Bound  Brook,  N.  J. 


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Lancaster,  R.  A.,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lams,  John  R.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Lathrop,  Bryan,  Chicago,  111. 
Leach,  James  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Leake,  J.  Jordan,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lecky,  Robert,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lee,  Blair,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Lee.  Captain  R.  E.,  West  Point,  Va. 

Lee.  R.  E.,  Jr.,  Fairfax  County,  Va. 
Le  Grande,  Mrs.  J.  H.,  Tyler,  Texas. 
Leigh,  Egbert  G.,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Letcher,  S.,  Houston,  Lexington,  Va. 
Levy,  Jefferson  M.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Lewis,  Charles,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Lewis,  Lunsford,  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lodge,  Hon.  H.  C.  Washington.  D.  C. 
Logan,  Rev.  P.  B.,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 
Lomax,  E.  L.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Long,  E.  McL..  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Lorton,  Heth,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Low,  Joseph  T.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Loyall,  Captain  B.  P.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Lukeman  H.  Augustus.  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Lyster.  Mrs.  H.  F.  L..  Detroit,  Mich. 

Mabry,  W.  S.,  Selma,  Ala. 

Maddox,  E.  L.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Mallory,   Lt.   C.   K.,   U.   S.   N.,  Syracuse, 

N.  Y. 
Mallory,  Lt.-Col.  J.  S.,  U.  S.  A..  Governor's 

Island,  N.  Y. 
Maloney,  Mrs.  Eva  Grant.  New  Castle,  Va. 
Markham.  George  D.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Martin,  R.  C,  Albemarle  Louisiana. 
Mastin,  Mrs.  George  R.,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Matthews,  Albert,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mayer,  Levy,  Chicago,  111. 
Mayo,  E.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Mayo,  P.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Mercer,  Mrs.  William  P..  Elm  City,  N.  C. 
Meredith,  Charles  V.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Meredith,  Philip  T.,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Meriwether,  Mrs.  Minor,  Loudoun  Co.,  Va. 
Merrill,  Mrs.  Lida  W.,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 
Miller,  Mrs.  Anna  M.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Miller,  Rudolph  P.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
MinniEerode,  Mrs.  Susan  T.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 
Mitchell,  Kirkwood,  Richmond,  Va. 
Moffett.  Miss  Edna  V.,  Wellesley,  Mass. 
Montague,  Hill,  Richmond,  Va. 
Montgomery,  William  G..  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Moore,  J.  Staunton.  Richmond,  Va. 
Moore,  Warner,  Richmond,  Va. 
Morehead,  C.  R.,  El  Paso,  Texas. 
Morehart,  Mrs.  Lillian  B.,  Mankato,  Minn. 


Morgan,  Dr.  D.  H.,  Amelia  C.  H.,  Va. 

Morton,  Miss  Hattie,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Munford,  Mrs.  Beverley  B..  Richmond,  Va. 

Munford.  R.  B.,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Myers,  Barton,  Norfolk,  Va. 

McAllister,  A.  S.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

McAllister,  J.  T.,  Hot  Springs,  Va. 

McBryde,  Dr.  J.  M.,  Blacksburg,  Va. 

McCabe,  Capt.  W.  Gordon.  Richmond,  Va. 

McCaleb,  Major  Thomas  S.,  U.  S.  A.,  Rich- 
mond, Va. 

McCluer,  W.  B.,  Chicago.  111. 

McConnell,  Prof.  J.  P.,  Emory.  Va. 

McCormick,  R.  Hall,  Chicago,  111. 

McCormick,  Harold  F.,  Chicago,  111. 

McCue,  John  N.,  Crystal  City,  Mo. 

McDonnel,  Mrs.  Eugene,  Baltimore,  Md. 

McFadden,  Charles,  Jr.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

McGraw.  John  T.,  Grafton.  W.  Va. 

McGuire,  Dr.  Edward,  Richmond,  Va. 

McGuire,  Mrs.  Frank  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 

McGuire,  John  Peyton,  Jr.,  Richmond, ,Va. 

McGuire,  Murray  M.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Mcllwaine,  Dr.  H.  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Mcllwaine,  W.  B.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

McKenny,  Virginia  Spotswood,  Petersburg, 
Va. 

McNiel,  Mrs.  Walter,  Richmond,  Va. 

Neilson,  Miss  Lou,  Oxford,  Miss. 

Nicoll,  Mrs.  DeLancy,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Nicholls,  Rt.  Rev.  W.  F.,  SanMateo,  Cal. 

Nixon,  Lewis,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Norvell,  Mrs.  Lipscomb,  Beaumont,  Texas. 

Ogden,  H.  C,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
Ogden,  Robt.  C,  New  York,  N;  Y. 
Otter,  John  B.,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Outerbridge,  Mrs.  A.  J.,  New  York,  N.'.Y. 
Owen,  Thomas  M.,  Montgomery.  Ala. 

Page,  Mrs.  Mann,  Elizabeth,  N,  J. 

Page,  S.  Davis.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Page,  Rosewell,  Richmond,  Va. 

Page,  Thomas  Nelson,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Palmer,  Col.  William  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Parrish,  Robert  L.,  Covington,  Va. 

Parker,  Col.  John,  Browsholme  Hall.Cle- 

thiroe,  Lancashire,  Eng. 
Parker,  W.  S.  R.,  Beaumont,  Texas. 
Patterson.  James  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Patteson.  S.  S.  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Payne,  John  B.,  Chicago.  111. 
Pegram,  Robert  B.,  Charleston,  S.  C. 
Penn,  Mrs.  James  G.,  Danville,  Va. 
Pennington,  William  C,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Pescud,  Peter  F.,  New  Orlean  ,  La. 


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Peterkin,    Mrs.    George    W.,    Parkersburg, 

W.  Va. 
Pettus.  William  J.,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  Marine 

Hospital  Service,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Phelps,  Wm.  B.,  Duluth.  Minn. 
Pickett,  Thomas  E.,  M.  D.,  Maysville,  Ky. 
Pinckard,  W.  P.,  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Pinckney,  C.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Pleasants.  Edwin,  Richmond,  Va. 
Pleasants,  Dr.  J.  Hall,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Pleasants,  William  H.,  Hollins,  Va. 
Plummer,  Miss  Lucy  D.,  Chicago,  111. 

Poindexter,  Judge  Miles,  Spokane,  Wash. 

Poindexter,  C.  E.,  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 

Poindexter,  W.  W.,  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Pollard,  Henry  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Powell,  J.  E.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Prentiss,  Judge  R.  R.,  Suffolk,.  Va. 

Price,  Theodore  H.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Pugh,  A.  H.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Purcell,  Col.  J.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Ragland,  Ashby  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Raines,  Dr.  Thomas  H.,  Savannah,  Ga. 
Raine,  T.  C,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Ramsay,  Mrs.  Clarise  Sears,  Westover,  Va. 
Randolph,  Beverley   S.,  Berkeley  Springs. 

W.  Va. 
Randolph,  Rt.  Rev.  A.M.,D.D.,  Norfolk.Va. 
Randolph,  Epes,  Tucson,  Ariz. 
Randolph,  Edward,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Randolph,  Tom,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Redman,  Ray  C,  Vincennes.  Ind. 
Reymann,  Mrs.  P.  0.,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
Richardson,  Albert  Levin,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Richardson,  Wm.   D.,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 
Ridgeley,  Mrs.  Jane  M.,  Springfield,  111. 
Rives,  Mrs.  W.  C,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Robards.  Col.  John  Lewis,  Hannibal,  Mo. 
Roberson,  Mrs.  J.  Fall,  Cropwell,  Ala. 
Robertson,  Frank  S.,  Abingdon,  Va. 
Robertson,  John  C,  Richmond,  Va 
Robertson,  M.  L.,  Dallas.  Texas. 
Robertson,  Thos.  B..  EastviUe,  Va. 
Robins,  Dr.  C.  R.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Robinson,  Alexander  G.,  Louisvi'le,  Ky. 
Robinson.  Judge  C.  W.,  Newport  News.  Va. 
Robinson,  P.  M.,  Clarksburg,  W.  Va. 
Rockwell,  Mrs.  Eckley,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Roller,  Gen.  John  E.,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 
Roper,  Bartlett.  Sen.,  Petersburg,  Va. 
Rose,  Mrs.  Charles  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Rowland,  Miss  Kate  Mason,  Richmond,  Va. 
Rucker,  Mrs.  B.  H.,  Rolla,  Mo. 
Ryan,  Thos,  F.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

[lands,  Conway  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Savage,  N.  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 


Scherr,  Henry,  Williamson,  W.  Va. 
Schouler,  Prof.  James,  Intervale,  N.  H. 
Schuck.  L.  E.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Scott,  George  Cole,  Richmond,  Va. 
Scott,  W.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Semmes,  Raphael  T.,  Savannah,  Ga. 
Sevier,  O'Neal,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Shelton,  Mrs.  Jane  R.  G..  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Shine,  Dr.  Francis  Eppes,  Bisbee,  Ariz. 
Shippen,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Lloyd,  Baltimore* 

Md. 
Sim,  John  R.,  New  York.  N,  Y. 
Sitterding,  Fritz,  Richmond,  Va. 
Slaughter,  A.  D.,  Chicago,  111. 

Smith,  George  G.,  D.  D.,  Macon,  Ga. 

Smith,  H.  M.,  Jr.,  Richmond.  Va. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Malcolm,  Wichita,  Kan. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Rosa  Wright,  FortSill.  Okla. 

Smith,  J.  W.,  Ottawa,  Ohio. 

Smith,  Willis  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Smith,  Captain,  R.  C,  U.  S.  N..  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

Smith,  W.  D.  G.,  Castleton,  Vt. 

Southall,  Rev.  S.  O.,  Hanever,  Va. 

Spears,  Harry  D.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Spencer,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Spencer,  J.  H.,  Martinsville,  Va. 

Spilman,  Gen.  B.  W.,  Warrenton,  Va. 

Spotswood,  Mrs.  W.  F.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

Stanard,  W.  G..  Richmond,  Va. 

Staton,  Mrs.  James  G.,  Williamston,  N.  C. 

Steiger,  E.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Stettinins,  Mrs.  E.  R.,  Dongan  Hill,  Staten 
Island,  N.  Y. 

Stevens,  B.  F.  and  Brown,  London,  Eng. 

Stewart,  Miss  Annie  C,  Brook  Hill,  Va. 

Stewart,  Miss  E.  Hope,  " 

Stewart,   Miss  Norma,  * 

Stewart,  Miss  Lucy  W.,  " 

Stewart,  Rev.  J.  Calvin,  Richmond,  Va. 

Stewart,  J.  A.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Stith,  Charles  H.,  New  Bern,  N.  C. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Mary  F.,  W.ishington,  D.  C. 

Stone,  Miss  Lucie,  P.,  HoHins.  Va. 

Strater,  Mrs.  Charles  G.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Strother,  Henry,  Fort  Smith,  Ark. 

Strother,  Hon.  P.  W.,  Pearisburg,  Va. 

Stuart,  Henry  C,  Elk  Garden,  Va. 

Symington,    Miss    Edith,    Winston-Salem. 
N.  C. 

Taliaferro,  Mrs.  Richard  P.,  WareNeck,  Va. 
Taylor.Edgar  D.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Taylor,  Dr.  Fielding  L.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Taylor,  Prof,  T.  U.,  Austin,  Texas. 
Taylor,  W.  E.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Terhune.  Mrs.  E.  T.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


LIST  OP  MEMBERS. 


IZ 


Thomas,  Douglas  H.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Thomas,  R.  S.,  Smithfield.  Va. 
Thompson,  Mrs.   Maurice,  Crawfordsville, 

Ind. 
Thompson,  Mrs.  W.  H.,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Thornton,  Mrs.  Champa  F.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Thornton,  R.  G.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Throckmorton,  C.  WicklifiFe,  Beaumont, 

Texas. 
Thurston,  R.  C,  Ballard,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Tidball,  Prof.  Thomas  A.,  Sewanee,  Tenn. 
Toulmin,  Prof.  H.  A.,  Jr.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 
Travers,  S.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Trippe,  Mrs.  M.  W..  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Tucker,  H.  St.  George,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Tunstall,  Richard  B.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Tunstall.  Robert  B.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Turner,  D.  L.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Turner,  Van  Arsdale  B..  Dover,  Del. 
Tyler,  Prof.  Lyon  G.,  Willamsburg,  Va. 

Undetwood.  Gen.  John  C.  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Underwood,  William  T.,  Birmingham.  Ala. 


Valentine.  B.  B..  Richmond,  Va. 

Valentine,  E.  v.,  " 

Valentine,  G.  G.,  * 

Valentine.  M.  S.,  Jr.,    " 

Victor,  E.  K.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Vincent,  George  A.,  Fairmoumt,  W.  Va. 

Waggener,  B.  P.,  Atchison,  Kan. 
Walke,  Cornelius,  Ossining,  N.  Y. 
Walke,  Mrs.  Frank  Anthony,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Walker,  G.  A.,  Gee  P.  O.,  Va. 
Walker,  Mrs.  J.  A.,  Brownwood,  Texas. 
Walker,  J.  G.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Waller,  E.  P.,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
WalHng,  Mrs.  WiUoughby,  Chicago.  111. 
Warren,  L.  R..  Richmond.  Va. 
Washburne.  Mrs.  Mary  M.,  Louisville.  Ky. 
Washington.  Joseph  E.,  Wessyngton.  Tenn. 
Washington.  R.  L.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Washington,  W.  Do  H..  New  York. 
Watts.  Mrs.  C.  L..  Charlotte.  N.  C. 
Watts.  Judge  Legh  R..  Portsmouth.  Va. 
Wayland,  J.  W.,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 


Webster,  Admiral  Hatrie,  U.  S.  N.,  Rich- 
mond, Va. 

Wellford,  B.  Rand,  Richmond,  Va. 

Wertenbaker,  Prof.  T.  G..  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, Princeton,  N.  J. 

White,  J.  B.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

White.  Miles.  Jr.,  Baltimore.  Md. 

White,  William  H..  Richmond.  Va. 

Whitehurst.  Dr.  M.  Morris.  Baltimore,  Md. 

Whitner.  Charles  F.,  Atlanta.  Ga. 

Whitridge.  Mrs.  Wm.  H..  Baltimore,  Md. 

Whitty,  J.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Wilkinson,   Dr.   Walter  W.,  Washington. 
D.  C. 

Willard,  Mrs.  Joseph  E.,  Fairfax  Co.,  Va. 

Williams,  E.  Randolph,  Richmond,  Va. 

Williams.  Mrs.  F.  L..  Bristol.  R.  1. 

Williams,  Harrison,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Williams,  John  Skelton,  Richmond,  Va. 

Williams,  Langbourne  M..  Richmond,  Va. 

Williams.  Mrs.  S.  W..  Richmond.  Va. 

Williamson.  H.  M..  Portland,  Oregon. 

Williamson.  J.  T..  Columbia.  Tenn. 

Wilson.  Capt.  Eugene  T.,  U.  S.  A.,  Cristo 
bal.  Canal  Zone. 

Wilson.  Mrs.  Howard  T..  Verden.  III. 

Winston.  James  O..  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

Wise,  Mrs.  Barton  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Wise,  Prof.  Henry  A.,  Baltimore.  Md. 

Wise  Jennings  C.  Lexington.  Va. 

Wise,  John  C.  M.  D..  U.  S.  N.,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Wise,  Rear-Admiral  Wm.  C,  U.  S.  N. 

Withers.  Alfred  D..  Roane's.  Va. 

Withington,  Lothrop.  London.  Eng. 

Woodhull,  Mrs.  Oliver  J..  San  Antonio,  Tex. 

Wortham,  Coleman,  Richmond.  Va. 

Wrenn,  Rev.  Virginius.  Amelia  C.  H.,  Va. 

Wright,  E.  E.,  New  Orleans,  La. 

Wynne.  Miss  Mae.  S.  M.,  Huntsville,  Texas. 

Wysor.  Harry  R.,  Muncie,  Ind. 

Yates,  Mrs.  W.  E..  Thomaston.  Ga. 
Yoakum.  R.  B..  Leavenworth.  Kan. 
Yonge.  Samuel  H..  Richmond,  Va. 
Young.  Hon.  B.  H..  Louisville.  Ky. 

Zimmer.  W.  L.,  Petersbugr,  Va. 


LIBRARIES— Annual  Members, 


American  Geographical  Society,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Boston  Public  Library,  Boston,  Mass. 
Brooklyn  Public  Library,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Brown  University  Library,  Providence,  R.I. 


Carnegie  Free  Library,  Alletthany,  Pa. 
Carnegie  Free  Library,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Carnegie  Library,  Atlanta.  Ga. 
Carnegie  Library.  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Chicago  Public  Library,  Chicago,  111. 


VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


Chicago  University  Library,  ChicaRO.  111. 
Cincinnati  Public  Library,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  Public  Library. 
Coast  Artillery  School  Library,  Fort  Mon- 
roe, Va. 
Cornell  University  Library,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Cossitt  Library,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

Department  of  Achives  and  Hictory,  Jack- 
son, Miss. 
Detroit  Public  Library,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Georgetown  University  Library,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 
Goodwin  Institute  Library,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Grosvenor  Pub.  Library,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Hampden-Sidney  College  Library,  Hamp- 

den-Sidney,  Va. 
Hampton    N.  and    A.   Institute   Library, 

Hampton,  Va. 
Harvard  University  Library,   Cambridge, 

Mass. 
Henry  Whitfield  House  Trustees,  Guilford, 

Conn. 

Illinios  State  Historical  Library,  Spring- 
field, 111. 

Illinois  Society  S.  A.  R.,  Chicago,  111. 

Indiana  State  Library.  Indianapolis. 

Indianapolis  Public  Library,  Indianapolis, 
Ind. 

Iowa,  Historical  Dept.  of,  Des  Moines,  la 

Kansas  City  Public  Library,  Kansas  City, 

Mo. 
Kansas   Historical   Society,   Topeka,   Kan. 


Lexington,  Ky.,  Public  Library. 
Library  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Long    Island    Historical    Society    Library, 

Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Public  Library. 
Louisville  Free  Public  Library,  Louisville 

Ky. 
Lynn,  Mass.,  Free  Public  Library  . 

Maine  State  Library,  Augusta,  Me. 
Mary  Willis  Library,  Washington,  Ga. 
Massachusetts  State  Library,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mechanics  Benevolent  Association  Library, 

Petersburg,  Va. 
Mercantile  Association  Library,  New  York, 

N.Y. 


Michigan  State  Library,  Lansing,  Mich. 
Milwaukee  Public  Library,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Minneapolis  Athenaeum   Library,   Minne- 
apolis. Minn. 
Mt.  Sterling  Ohio  Public  Library. 

Nebraska  University  Library,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Newberry  Library,  Chicago,  111. 

New  Hampshire  State  Library,  Concord 
N.  H. 

Norfolk  Public  Library,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Northwestern  University  Library',  Evans- 
ton,  111. 

Oberlin  College  Library,  Oberlin,  Ohio. 
Ohio  State  Library,  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Omaho  Public  Library,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Parliament  Library,  Ottawa,  Canada. 

Peabody  College  for  Teachers  Library, 
Nashville,  Tenn. 

Peabody  Institute,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Pennsylvania  State  College,  State  College, 
Pa. 

Pennsylvania  State  Library.  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Peoria  Public  Library,  Peoria,  111. 

Peauot  Library,  Southport,  Conn. 

Philadelphia  Institute  Free  Library,  Chest- 
nut and  18th  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Philadelphia  Law  Association  Library, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Pratt  Free  Library,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Princeton  University  Librc^ry,  Princeton, 
N.J. 

Randolph-Macon  College  Library,  Ash- 
land. Va. 

Randolph-Macon  Womans  College,  Col- 
lege Park.  Va. 

Southern     Baptist     Theological    Seminary 

Louisville,  Ky. 
Springfield      City     Library      Association, 

Springfield,  Mass. 
State    Department    Library,    Washington, 

D.C. 
Stanford  University  Library,  Cal. 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  Public  Library. 
St.    Louis   Mercantile   Library,    St.  Louis, 

Mo. 
St.  Louis  Public  Library,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Syracuse  Public  Library,  Syracuse,  N.  J. 

Toronto  Public  Library,  Toronto,  Canada. 


LIST  OP  MEMBERS. 


Union  Theological  Seminary  Library,  Rich- 
mond, Va. 

University  of  California  Library,  Berkeley, 
Cal. 

University  of  Illinois  Library,  TJrbanna,  111. 

University  of  Indiana  Library,  Blooming- 
ton,  Ind. 

University  of  Michigan^  Library,  Ann  Ar- 
bor, Mich. 

University  of  Minnesota  Library,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

University  of  North  Carolina  Library, 
Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 

University  of  Virginia  Library,  Charlottes- 
ville. Va. 

University  of  West  Virginia  Library,  Mor- 
gantown,  W.  Va. 


Vanderbilt  University  Library,  Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Virginia  State  Library,  Richmond,  Va. 
Virginia  Military  Institute  Library,  Lex- 
ington, Va. 
Virginia    Polytechnic    Institute    Library* 

Blacksburg,  Va. 
War    Department    Library,     Washington, 

D.  C. 
West  Virginia  Department  of  Archives  and 

History,  Charleston,  W.  Va. 
Wheeling  Public  Library,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
Worcester  Free  Public  Library,   Worcester, 

Mass. 
Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Soci» 

ety,  Wilkes-Barre.  Pa. 
Yale  University  Library,  New  Haven.Conn. 


LIBRARIES— Life  Members. 

Boston  Athenaeum  Library,  Boston,  Mass, 


California  State  Library,  Sacramento,  Cal. 
Columbia  College  Library,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Library  Company,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


New  York  Public  Library,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York  State  Library,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Richmond  College  Library,  Richmond,  Va. 

Washington  and  Lee  University  Library, 
Lexington,  Va. 


PROCEEDINGS 


Virginia    Historical  Society 


ANNUAL  MEETING 


HELD  IN  THE 


HOUSE   OF   THE   SOCIETY 


February  15,  1913. 


MITCHELL  &  HOTCHKISS 

PRINTERS  TO  THE  SOCIETY 

RICHMOND,  VA. 


PROCEEDINGS 


Virginia   Historical    Society 

IN 

Annual  Meeting  Held  February  15,  1913. 


The  Annual  Meeting  was  held  at  the  Society's  House,  707 
East  Franklin  Street,  on  Saturday,  February  15th,  at  4.30, 
P.  M.  The  meeting  was  called  to  order  with  President  Mc  Cabe 
in  the  chair. 

The  first  business  was  the  reading  of  the  President's  report, 
(which  is  printed  below).  Mr.  Robert  A.  Lancaster,  Jr.,  Treas- 
urer of  the  Society,  read  his  Annual  Report,  which  is,  as  usual, 
here  printed  with  that  of  the  President. 

Annual  Report  of  the  President  of  the  Virginia 
Historical    society. 

I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  following  Report,  giving  in 
detail  the  work  of  the  Society  and  presenting  a  precise  statement 
of  its  condition  as  to  finances,  membership,  and  property  for  the 
year  ending  Nov.  30,  1912. 

While  no  events  or  enterprises  specifically  noteworthy  have 
marked  the  history  of  the  Society  during  this  time,  the  anti- 
quarian has  only  to  compare  the  meagre  "Proceedings"  of 
eighty  years  ago  when  John  Marshall  (our  first  President)  and 
Rives  and  Gushing  and   other   illustrious    men  essayed  with 


IV  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

such  original  material  as  was  known  to  them,  to  perpetuate  the 
glories  of  the  "Old  Dominion" — one  has  only  to  compare  what 
was  then  done,  with  the  rich  and  varied  contents  of  our  Maga- 
zine of  to-day  (and  indeed  for  a  score  of  years  past) ,  to  recog- 
nize instantly  how  great  has  been  the  advance  not  only  in 
wealth  of  original  matter,  but  in  the  precise  methods  of  its 
scientific  presentation. 


Membership 

But  in  one  respect  these  illustrious  pioneers  and  their  follow- 
ers who  made  the  Society  possible,  were  guided  by  a  virtue  that 
we  have  only  partially  attained — they  paid  their  debts. 

It  is,  indeed,  with  a  deep-seated  repugnance  that  we  have 
again  to  dwell  on  the  failtire  of  so  many  of  ovir  members  to  pay 
their  annual  dues  and  are  driven  once  more  to  remonstrate  with 
so  many  delinquents,  who  are  abundantly  able  to  pay,  yet,  who, 
through  culpable  negligence  or  through  an  indifference  almost 
cynical,  are  deaf  to  the  coiu-teous  "reminders"  of  our  collector. 

If  these  members  could  only  be  brought  to  realize  how  their 
failiire  to  pay  their  just  debts  often  embarrasses  the  Society 
(which  scrupulously  pays  its  own),  perhaps,  they  would,  for 
very  shame's  sake,  cease  their  inexcusable  negligence  (to  use  the 
most  charitable  phrase),  and  by  prompt  payment  enable  our  ac- 
complished Editor  and  the  Executive  Committee  to  broaden  the 
scope  of  the  Magazine  in  certain  directions  already  mapped  out. 

In  accordance  with  the  warning  contained  in  our  last  Annual 
Report,  we  dropped  a  considerable  number  of  the  most  persis- 
tent of  these  delinquents,  but  the  warning  was  not  imiversally 
heeded,  and  it  looks  as  if  we  shall  have  within  a  few  weeks  to 
protect  oiurselves  by  making  use  of  the  same  drastic  procedure. 
Let  us  repeat  here  that  notwithstanding  a  majority  of  these  de- 
linquents are  abimdantly  able  to  pay  their  dues,  there  was  still 
due  the  Society  at  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year  just  ended  the  con- 
siderable sum  of  foiu*  hundred  dollars. 

It  is,  however,  only  just  to  add  that  some  of  these  have  paid, 
while  this  report  was  in  preparation. 


PROCEEDINGS.  V 

The  Executive  Committee  is  determined  to  purge  oiu*  rolls 
completely  of  these  conscienceless  men  and  women  who  (to 
alter  Shakespere  a  trifle)  apparently  consider  it  a  sign  of  base 
slavery  ever  to  pay,  and  who,  regardless  of  the  largely  increased 
cost  of  bringing  out  the  Magazine,  accept  our  publications  as 
a  sort  of  inherent  right. 

Nay,  more,  in  the  statement  given  above,  there  is  not  includ- 
ed a  considerable  amoimt  of  money  due  the  Society  by  members, 
who  explicitly  pledged  themselves  to  pay  dues  so  long  as  their 
names  remained  on  our  rolls  (be  the  time  long  or  short),  but  who 
finding  the  Magazine  interesting,  have  not  held  to  their  pledges, 
putting  us  off  with  the  shabbiest  of  evasions.  Of  course,  most  of 
this  money  will  never  be  collected,  and  "a  last  appeal"  in  this 
case  is  absolutely  useless. 

Yet  despite  all  this,  the  year  has  been  on  the  whole  a  mate- 
rially prosperous  one,  and  it  is  gratifying  to  state  that,  after 
making  all  deductions  due  to  our  unusually  large  and  mournful 
necrology,  to  a  few  resignations,  and  to  the  delinquents  dropped 
(as  mentioned  above) ,  our  membership  has  increased  from  758 
to  768,  a  net  gain  of  ten  over  last  year. 

And  it  is  pertinent  to  draw  special  attention  just  here  to  the 
fact,  that  though  the  payment  of  dues  has  not  been  what  we 
confidently  expected  after  our  former  purging  of  the  roll,  the 
subjoined  Treasurer's  Report  evidences  conclusively  that  the  fi- 
nancial condition  of  the  Society  is  stronger  than  ever  before. 

Treasurer's  Report 
To  The  Virginia  Historical  Society. 

I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  following  annual  report  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  Nov.  30, 1912. 

Balance  in  Bank  Dec.  1,  1912 S987.60 

Receipts. 

Annual  Dues $3075.55 

Life  Members 100.00 

Sale  of  Magazines 136.85 

Sale  of  Publications 6.00 

Interest 630.78 


VI  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Rent 150.00 

Advertising 35.50 

Gift  from  Mrs.  Byam  K.  Stevens  for 

Permanent  Fund 50.00        4184.68 

5172  28 
Disbursements. 

Salaries $1799.98 

Wages 305.00 

Postage  and  Express 109.21 

Repairs 186.25 

Books,  binding  and  Stationery 104.24 

Sundry  Bills 244.18 

Printing  Magazines 1027.25 

To  Permanent  Fund 1250.00 

Insurance 6. 00 

Checks  returned 24.50        5056.61 

Balance  in  Bank  Nov.  30,  19121 115.67 

$5172.28 
Permanent  Fund. 

3%  Certificate  of  Deposit $2000.00 

Mortgage,  5%  from  January  19,  1909 1000.00 

Mortgage,  5%  running  three  years  from  July  11,  1910 5500.00 

Fifteen  (15)  Shares  of  stock  in  the  Citizen's  Bank  of  Nor- 
folk, Va.,  paying  12%  dividend,  estimated  value 3900.00 

$12400.00 

In  accordance  with  an  order  of  the  Executive  Committee  the  Treasurer 
presents  the  following  tabulated  statement,  showing  the  sources  from 
which  the  Permanent  Fund  is  derived.  What  is  termed  "The  Society's 
Fund"  comprises  the  amoimt  the  Committee  has  been  able  to  save 
from  year  to  year  out  of  the  ordinary  revenues  of  the  Society. 

The  Virginia  Sturdivant  McCabe  Fund,  given  by  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  Society  in  memory  of  his  granddaughter,  Vir- 
ginia Sturdivant  McCabe,  born  February  1,  1906,  died 

August  11, 1909 500.00 

The  Jane  Pleasants  Harrison  Osborne  McCabe  Fund  given  by 
the  President  of  the  Society  in  loving  memory  of  his  wife 
Jane  Pleasants  Harrison  Osborne  McCabe,  who  died  No- 
vember 22,  1912 500.00 

Daughters  of  the  Ame«dcan  Revolution  Fund 100 .  00 

Byam  K.  Stevens  Fund 650.00 

Edward  Wilson  James  Fund 3900.00 

Society's  Fund 6750.00 

$12400.00 


PROCEEDINGS.  Vll 

It  is  very  gratifying  to  note  that  since  the  last  report  the  Permanent 
Fimd  has  increased  $1300.00.  Of  this  Amoiant  $550.00  was  derived  from 
gifts,  $300 .  00  from  an  increased  value  of  bank  stock  and  $450 .  00  added  by 
the  Committee  from  the  earnings  of  the  Society.  This  last  addition  was 
made  in  part  from  the  receipts  of  two  years. 

Mrs.  Byam  K.  Stevens  of  New  York  City  has  added  $50.00  to  the  gift 
of  her  late  husband.  This  amount  was  duly  acknowledged  when  received 
but  the  Executive  Committee  desires  again  to  thank  Mrs.  Stevens.  The 
first  addition  our  Permanent  Fvind  received  from  an  individual  was  from 
Mr.  Stevens  and  we  are  not  only  grateful  to  Mrs.  Stevens  for  her  kindness 
but  glad  to  have  her  name  on  our  roll  of  members. 

The  gift  from  the  President  of  the  Society  to  the  Permanent  Fund,  at 
a  time  of  deep  personal  sorrow,  has  caused  the  Committee  to  direct  me 
to  include  in  my  report  and  to  read  to  this  meeting  an  expression  of  our 
gratitude,  affection  and  sympathy  and  to  assure  him  that  this  memorial 
to  one,  who  in  birth  and  character  represented  the  best  traditions  of 
Virginia  womanhood,  shall  be  forever  preserved. 

R.  A.  LANCASTER,  JR., 

Treasurer. 

Additions  to  the  Library. 

The  additions  to  the  Library  in  books  and  pamphlets  number 
569  for  the  year 

The  donors  of  books,  to  whom  we  desire  to  make  special  and 
most  grateful  acknowledgment,  are ;  Messrs  James  Branch  Ca- 
bell, Gabriel  Edmonston,  P.  H.  Baskervill,  Henry  P.  Ruggles, 
William  C.  Lusk,  Floyd  C.  Shoemaker,  John  W.  Townsend, 
Richard  A.  Austen-Leigh,  M.  A.,  (of  England),  Matthew  P.  An- 
drews, Woodberry  Lowery,  A.  M.  Pritchard,  Thos.  Willing 
Balch,  John  C.  Underwood,  M.  W.  Seymour,  W.  S.  R.  Parker, 
Gaston  Lichenstein,  Albert  Matthews,  Morgan  P.  Robinson, 
St.  George  T.  C.  Bryan,  Henry  R.  Pollard,  Oren  F.  Morton,  J. 
C.  McMasters,  Philip  Alexander  Bruce,  William  G.  Stanard, 
and  Jas.  F.  Jameson  (historians);  Rev'^.  D.  M.  Vorhees,  D.  D.; 
Professors  C.  H.  Firth,  J.  P.  McConnell  and  Alfred  J.  Morrison; 
Doctors  Beverly  W.  Bond,  Jr.,  J.  G.  B.  Bulloch,  McGiiire  New- 
ton, and  J.  L.  Miller;  Col.  Bennett  H.  Young,  and  Judge  T.  R. 
B.  Wright;  Mesdames  C.  R.  Hyde,  J.  B.  Henneman,  Charles 
Howard,  Charies  B.  Ball,  Wm.  G.  Stanard,  Mary  Selden  Ken- 
nedy, and  Miss  Stella  P.  Hardy. 


Viii  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

In  addition  (and  quite  apart  from  our  great  number  of  histori- 
cal and  genealogical  "Exchanges"),  we  have  to  note,  with  grate- 
ful acknowledgments,  the  reception  of  publications  from  the 
following  institutions  and  organizations :  the  Virginia  State  Li- 
brary; the  St.  Andrew's  Society  of  New  York;  the  New  York 
Bible  and  Prayer-Book  Society;  the  Order  of  Foimders  and 
Patriots  of  America;  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  Colonial 
Dames;  the  American  Antiquarian  Society;  the  United 
Daughters  of  the  Confederacy;  the  Mt.  Vernon  Ladies'  Associa- 
tion; the  Commission  on  Archives  of  the  General  Conven- 
tion of  the  P.  E.  Church;  the  New  Hampshire  Bible  Society;  the 
Royal  Society  of  Canada;  the  Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati  in  the  States  of  Virginia,  of  New  York,  and  of  Dela- 
ware; the  Library  of  Congress;  the  U.  S.  National  Museimi;  the 
Philadelphia  Museums;  the  University  of  Alabama;  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina;  Randolph  Macon  College;  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution;  the 
Southern  Society  of  New  York ;  the  American  Clan  Gregor  So- 
ciety ;  the  Carnegie  Institute ;  and  the  Department  of  Archives 
of  the  State  of  New  York. 

As  always  in  preceding  years,  our  library  has  been  freely 
open  to  the  public  and  made  constant  use  of,  while  it  is  no  exag- 
geration to  say  that  the  great  majority  of  scholarly  compilers  or 
authors  who  have  essayed  to  deal  with  American  Colonial  his- 
tory of  the  Seventeenth  and  Eighteenth  Centuries  or  with  Amer- 
ican genealogies  of  those  periods,  have  made  extensive  investi- 
gations in  our  unique  manuscript  collections. 

All  accessions  to  the  Library  that  have  come  to  us  unbound, 
have  been  carefully  catalogued  and  placed  in  stout  cases  (or 
"binders"),  which  now  number  250.  Such  pamphlets  as  are 
too  large  for  ordinary  "binders"  have  been  substantially  bound 
in  cloth. 

During  the  year,  a  large  map-case  has  been  placed  in  oiu"  rooms 
and  a  portion  of  "the  Gilmer  Collection"  (an  invaluable  set  of 
contemporaneous  war-maps  (1861-64)  made  under  the  imme- 
diate eye  of  the  distinguished  Confederate  Chief  of  Engineers, 
Major-Gen.  J.  F.  Gilmer,  and  presented  to  the  Society  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Louise  Gilmer  Minis,  of  Savannah,  Georgia)  has 


PROCEEDINGS.  IX 

been  arranged  therein,  so  as  to  be  easy  of  access  to  military 
students.  On  close  inspection  it  was  decided  that  the  remain- 
ing maps  needed  some  minute  repairs,  and  as  soon  as  these  re- 
pairs are  all  finished,  the  maps  will  be  at  once  placed  in  their  re- 
spective cases. 

As  stated  in  our  last  report,  this  collection  of  maps  is  of  the 
first  importance  to  scientific  students  of  the  war  between  the 
States. 

Gifts. 

Among  other  gifts,  one  of  the  most  notable  is  a  large  and  hand- 
some book-case  which  has  attached  to  it  a  certain  historic  inter- 
est, and  which  was  presented  to  the  society  by  MissWoodbridge, 
Mrs.  Goodnow  and  Mrs  Bell,  daughters  of  the  Rev"*.  Dr.  George 
Woodb ridge.  Rector  for  many  years  of  the  Monumental  chiirch 
in  this  city,  whom  some  of  us  remember  to  have  seen  busily 
drilling  the  raw  levies  that  every  day  poured  into  Richmond  from 
the  South,  for  he  vv^as  a  graduate  of  West  Point,  class-mate  of 
Albert  Sidney  Johnston  and  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Confed- 
erate cause  from  start  to  finish.  This  book -case  was  made  to 
order  for  President  Jeft'erson  Davis,  but  he  for  some  reason  fail- 
ing to  take  it,  Dr.  Woodbridge  bought  it.  It  is  not  only  in 
itself  a  very  handsome  piece  of  furniture,  but  it  has  proved  of 
great  practical  service  to  us  in  providing  additional  shelf -room, 
of  v/hich  we  still  stand  in  grievous  need. 

We  may  note  also  (1)  photographs  of  the  Lee  and  Davis  monu- 
ments, given  by  William  G.  Stanard,  (2)  an  old  Seal  ring  bearing 
the  arms  of  Capt.  John  Smith  (not  the  great  John  Smith,  the  vir- 
tual founder  of  Virginia,  whose  arms  are  still  fraudulently  borne 
by  Major-General  Sir  Baden-Powell,  but  of  Capt.  John  Smith,  a 
stout  Gloucester  county  fanner),  presented  to  the  Society  by  his 
direct  lineal  descendant  Mrs.  Mary  G.  Anderson,  of  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.;  (3)  the  MS.  Account  Book  (1794-1822)  of  Dr.  John 
Walker,  of  "Kingston,"  Dinwiddle  County,  Va.,  presented  by 
Dr.  John  Walker  Broadnax ;  (4)  thirty-one  engravings  and  pho- 
tographs of  the  Presidents  and  Trustees  of  Hampden-Sidney 
College,  given  by  Prof.  Alfred  J.  Morrison,  the  accomplished 


X  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

historian  of  that  famous  old  seat  of  learning;  (5)  a  large  collec- 
tion of  Confederate  currency  of  aU  denominations,  from  the 
United  States  Treasury  Department;  (6)  Land  Grants  signed  by 
the  Royal  Governors,  Farquhar  and  Dinwiddle,  and  other  MSS. 
of  value,  presented  by  Miss  Lucie  P.  Stone,  of  Hollins,  Va. 

All  gifts  of  single  manuscripts,  photographs,  etc.,  were  ac- 
knowledged by  our  Secretary  at  the  time  received,  but  we  wish 
to  return  our  thanks  again. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that ' '  dealers ' '  in  the  rich  cities  of  the  North 
and  West  are  keener  than  ever  before  in  their  quest  of  MSS.  of 
historic  value,  offering  in  a  great  many  instances  exorbitant 
sums  for  them,  and  that  owners  of  like  MSS.  in  the  South  are 
men  of  moderate  means,  who  do  not  feel  justified  in  giving  away 
letters  and  documents,  the  price  of  which  would  purchase  many 
substantial  comforts  for  those  nearest  and  dearest  to  them — it  is 
not  likely  that  the  Society's  Collections  wiU,  in  the  future, 
be  increased  by  such  liberal  donations  and  bequests  as  in  the 
past. 

Publication    Committee. 

Vol.  XX  of  our  Quarterly  Magazine  was  published  during 
1912  and  was  conducted  on  the  same  high  plane  that  its  readers 
look  for  in  it,  both  at  home  and  abroad.. 

The  Randolph  Manuscript  (a  compilation  of  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury Records,  the  originals  of  which  were  long  years  ago  destroy- 
ed by  fire),  which  has  proved  a  priceless  mine  of  first-hand  in- 
formation to  all  recent  writers,  who  have  undertaken  to  tell  the 
story  of  our  earliest  Colonial  history,  ran  through  the  year  (cov- 
ering in  the  latest  instalments  the  years  1688-90-92),  as  did 
also  various  "Commissions"  of  Governor  Nicholson  and  Lord 
Orkney. 

The  second  series  of  Miscellaneous  Colonial  Documents,  cop- 
ied from  unpublished  records  in  the  Virginia  State  Library,  was 
brought  to  completion. 

Mr.  Lathrop  Withington,  owing  to  great  pressure  of  profes- 
sional business,  was  able  to  complete  but  two  instalments  of 
his  transcripts  of  the  "Minutes  of  the  Council  and  General 


PROCEEDINGS.  XI 

Court  of  Virginia"  (1622-24),  but  this  keen  antiquarian  and 
indefatigable  scholar  has  recently  sent  us  the  remaining  tran- 
scripts of  the  first  volume,  and  these  will  be  published  promptly 
and  without  further  interrruption. 

It  may  be  said,  without  fear  of  successful  contradiction,  that 
no  printed  document  whatever  dealing  with  early  Colonial  Vir- 
ginia history  is  of  more  solid  and  illumining  value  than  these 
"Minutes,"  of  which  we  shall  have  a  word  to  say  further  on, 
when  we  touch  upon  our  prospective  plans. 

Mr.  Withington's,  Virginia  Gleanings  in  England,  consisting  of 
extracts  from  wills  relating  to  early  settlers  in  Virginia,  have  been 
published  during  the  year,  and,  as  heretofore,  have  attracted  keen 
interest  and  elicited  much  lauditory  comment,  shedding  as  they 
do.  in  most  delightful  fashion,  varied  and  most  valuable  side- 
lights on  the  social  and  economic  life  of  our  early  Colonial  era. 
We  have  not  seldom  before  had  ocassion  to  make  special  mention 
of  Mr.  Withington's  most  generous  services  to  this  Society,  but 
we  cannot  refrain  from  expressing  once  more  our  cordial  grati- 
tude to  this  skilled  antiquarian  (who  stands  "at  the  very  top" 
of  his  craft)  for  the  munificent  gift  of  liis  time,  his  money,  and 
trained  learning,  that  he  has  made  for  so  many  years  (and  still 
continues  to  make)  to  the  single-minded  end  of  supporting  our 
efforts  to  make  better  known  to  the  world  the  true  history  of 
this  ancient  Commonwealth. 

Notable  among  these  "Gleanings"  published  during  this  year 
of  1912,  have  been  the  wills  of  Samuel  Each,  who  came  to  Vir- 
ginia as  early  as  1622  (the  year  of  "the  Great  Massacre")  "to 
build  a  fort, "  and  of  Col.  Daniel  Parke,  who  served  on  the  Diike 
of  Marlborough's  staff,  and  who,  for  splendid  services  on  the 
field,  was  chosen  by  that  illustrious  soldier  to  be  the  bearer  of 
despatches  to  her  Majesty,  Queen  Anne,  announcing  the  bril- 
liant victory  of  Blenheim. 

The  Orderiy  Books  (1778-9)  of  the  Continental  Army  have 
been  pubUshed  in  three  instalments  and  continue  to  throw  im- 
portant light  on  the  conduct  of  affairs  in  the  anny  serving  im- 
mediately under  Washington. 

Owing  to  pressure  of  official  business,  precisely  as  was  the  case 
with  Mr.  Withington,  Messrs  Flagg  and  Waters  were  able  to  fur- 


Xll  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

nish  us  with  but  three  instalments  of  their  very  important  "Vir- 
gmla  Eevolutiomary  Bibliography  and  Lists  of  Regimental  Of- 
ficers' ',  but  these  steadfast  friends  of  the  Society  are  once  more 
busy  at  their  task  and  the  series  will  begin  again  during  1913. 

The  notable  series  of  Abstracts  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury,  as  well 
as  the  Complete  Transcripts  from  the  original  papers  in  the  Brit- 
ish Public  Records  Office  (now  in  the  State  Library  and  com- 
monly known  as  the  "De  Jamette,"  "Winder,"  and  "McDon- 
ald ' '  Papers)  have  run  through  each  number  of  the  Magazine. 
The  year  1676  was  reached  in  our  collection  of  these  "Abstracts, " 
while  another  collection  of  the  Complete  Transcripts ,  from  1665 
on,  was  begun  in  our  pages.  These  papers,  which  consist  mainly 
of  letters,  though  they  also  include  communications  of  a  more 
formal  character  from  the  English  Government  to  Virginia 
Colonial  officials  (and  vice-versa) ,  are  of  high  historical  import. 

Among  other  important  docimients  that  we  have  printed  dur- 
ing the  year,  are  (1)  copies  of  two  very  striking  "Tobacco  Acts ", 
one  of  1725,  the  other  of  1729,  neither  of  which  can  be  found  in 
Hening's  Statutes;  (2)  a  number  of  Revolutionary  "Pension 
Declarations,"  from  Pittsylvania  County,  Va.,  very  helpful  in 
giving  details  of  Militia  Revolutionary  service  in  the  Common- 
wealth; (3)  a  list  of  obituary  notices  contained  in  the  Richmond 
newspapers,  ranging  from  1788  to  1821,  the  value  of  which  is 
obvious  to  all  engaged  in  biographical  and  genealogical  research ; 
(4)  a  collection  of  letters  from  George  Washington  Parke  Custis 
to  his  guardian  and  adoptive  father,  George  Washington,  and  (5) 
another  collection  of  letters  (notable  for  completeness  and  count- 
less graphic  touches)  exchanged  between  George  Hume  or  Home 
(for  the  same  pronunciation  of  the  name  obtains  in  Scotland, 
whether  spelled  with  an  o  or  u),  and  his  "ainfolk"  over-seas — 
he  being  a  cadet  of  the  famous  Wedderbum  family,  who,  having 
settled  as  a  young  man  in  Virginia,  kept  up  this  spirited  corres- 
pondence with  kinsmen  in  Scotland. 

The  other  departments  of  our  Magazine  have  been  replete 
with  matter  of  historical  value,  sometimes  amusing,  sometimes 
prosaic,  but  always  throwing  unconciously  valuable  side-lights 
on  the  daily  life  of  the  time  . 


PROCEEDINGS.  XIU 

In  "Notes  and  Queries"  have  appeared  (1)  many  transcripts 
from  historical  documents  in  England;  (2)  from  the  records  of 
Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  in  regard  to  the  "Virginia  Yazoo 
Company"  (3)  a  number  of  Confederate  Copyrights  of  signal 
value  to  Confederate  Bibliographists;  (4)  a  series  of  most 
interesting  extracts  from  what  has  been  left  (after  the  shameful 
pillage  by  the  Federal  armies  during  '62  and  '63)  of  the  Colonial 
records  of  Prince  George  and  Caroline  Counties,  Va.;  and  (5) 
numerous  other  "Notes"  on  historical  and  antiquarian  subjects, 
which  it  seemed  best  to  us  to  classify  imder  this  title. 

The  department  of  Book-Reviews  has  maintained  its  usual 
high  standard,  the  reviews  in  most  cases,  so  far  from  being  of  a 
perfimctory  kind  almost  invariably  supplementing  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  author  by  additional  information  from  the  reviewer, 
germane  to  the  subject  discussed.  The  same  is  true  of  the  Ge- 
nealogical section,  which  has  kept  up  its  long-established  repu- 
tation for  rigid  accuracy,  while  offering  suggestive  clues  in 
cases  where  absolute  proof  is  lacking. 

And  now  a  word  concerning  the  prospective  plans  of  the  Ed- 
itor and  our  "Executive  Committee" 

As  has  been  said  above,  it  is  now  reasonably  certain  that  the 
Randolph  Manuscript  v/ill  be  finished  during  1913,  and  it  is 
worth  considering  whether  the  whole  of  it  (as  presented  in  the 
pages  of  the  Magazine)  shall  not  be  offered  to  the  public  in 
book-form  at  a  moderate  price.  As  regards  the  "Abstracts" 
and  Transcripts  in  full  from  the  British  Public  Records  Office, 
already  alluded  to,  it  may  be  noted  that  our  objective  point  in 
this  series  (the  year  1700)  will  probably  not  be  reached  until  the 
close  of  the  coming  year. 

The  first  volume  of  the  "Minutes  of  the  Council  and  General 
Court  of  Virginia  (1622-24)  will  most  probably  be  finished  in 
1913,  and  the  presentation  of  the  second  volume  in  like  consecu- 
utive  form  demands  careful  consideration.  It  is  to  be  borne  in 
mind  that ,  in  the  earlier  volumes  of  the  Magazine,  we  have  al- 
ready printed  every  extract  made  years  ago  from  this  second 
volume  of  Minutes  by  the  late  Conway  Robinson ,  a  profound 
jurist,  keen  antiquarian  and  a  most  devoted  member  of  this  So- 


XIV  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

ciety,  but  it  is  known  to  close  historical  students  that  his  omis- 
sions were  not  infrequent.  As  to  how  much  he  did  omit,  can  only 
be  determined  by  the  most  minute  collation.  On  this  hinges 
the  whole  question  of  reproducing  this  second  volume  in  its  con- 
secutive entirety. 

It  may  also  be  noted  here  that  there  are  now  in  the  Congres- 
sional Library  many  luipublished  doctunents  relating  to  this 
period,  transcribed  of  recent  years  (by  the  trained  staff  of  the 
Library's  copyists)  from  the  originals  in  the  British  Public 
Records  Office.  All  of  these  we  propose  to  publish  with  the 
generous  consent  of  the  officials  of  that  great  Library.  When 
we  shall  have  done  this  and  finished  the  Randolph  Manuscript 
and  the  Minutes  of  the  Council  and  General  Court,  together 
with  some  few  other  dociunents,  the  Committee  will  have  ac- 
complished its  ambition  to  make  accessible  in  print  to  histori- 
cal students  the  whole  body  of  Seventeenth  Century  documents, 
that  bear  an  intimate  and  essential  relation  to  Virginia  history 
of  that  time. 

We  expect  to  finish  during  the  coming  year  the  Revolutionary 
Orderly  Books,  and  to  begin  again  in  our  April  number  the  se- 
ries dealing  with  Virginia  Soldiers  of  the  Revolution  .  For  a 
continuation  of  Revolutionary  Pension  Claims  space  will  also  be 
found.  As  our  readers  must  have  observed,  the  history  of  the 
services  of  Virginia  troops  during  the  Revolution  has  become  a 
special  feature  of  the  Magazine,  and  it  is  our  purpose  to  extend 
more  and  more  its  scope  in  this  direction.  For  instance,  the 
series  of  Legislative  Petitions  and  other  documents  dealing  with 
the  earlier  periods  of  the  Revolution,  as  well  as  those  bearing  on 
events  immediately  subsequent  to  that  momentous  struggle 
which  were  necessarily  suspended  some  few  years  ago,  will  soon 
be  recommenced. 

Of  course.  Notes  and  Queries,  Genealogies,  Book-Reviews, 
Gleanings,  and  other  established  departments  will  be  continu- 
ed. 

The  Magazine  it  may  be  said  without  immodesty,  has  long 
since  won,  and  still  holds,  its  place  among  the  foremost  historical 
quarterlies  and  journals  pubHshed  whether  at  home  or  abroad, 
and  your  Committee  ventures  again  to  make  grateful  acknowl- 


PROCEEDINGS.  XV 

edgment  of  the  learning,  industry,  and  consumate  skill  of  its 
editor,  Mr.  Wm.  G.  Stanard,  whose  name,  despite  his  innate 
modesty,  is  a  "household  word"  to  scholars  and  antiquarians 
the  world  over. 

Sister  Societies. 

The  chief  work  of  the  "Association  for  the  Preservation  of 
Virginia  Antiquities,"  during  the  year  1912,  has  been  the  ex- 
quisite restoration  and  appropriate  refurnishing  of  the  old 
"John  Marshall  House. "  No  doubt,  before  this  report  is  read, 
it  will  be  open  to  the  public,  who  will  wander  with  delight 
through  the  simple,  yet  spacious  mansion  of  "the  great  Chief 
Justice, "  whose  refined  home  it  was  for  so  many  happy  years. 

The  "Colonial  Dames  of  America  in  the  State  of  Virginia" 
have  arranged  to  mark  with  appropriate  tablets  the  birth-places 
of  Presidents  of  the  United  States,  who  were  bom  and  reared  in 
our  "Old  Dominion." 

Necrology. 

Life  Members. 

J.  C.  Langhome,  Salem,  Va. 

W.  L.  Sheppard,  Richmond,  Va. 

Annual  Members. 

J.  LiNwooD  Antrim,  Richmond,  Va. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Throckmorton  Breeding,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Dr.  G.  C.  Greenway,  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

Adrian  H.  Joline,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  Sterling  Loving,  Columbus,  Ohio  (died  1911) 

James  Martin,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  (died  1911) 

J.  H.  NoBLiT,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  (died  1911) 

Mrs.  Eliza  L.  Potwin,  Chicago,  111. 

Ro.  G.  Rennolds,  Richmond,  Va. 


XVI  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

James  M.  Rice,  Peoria,  111. 

John  Vermillion,  Norfolk,  Va. 

William  Minor  Woodward,  Richmond,  Va. 

Over  all  of  them,  we  breathe  our  simple,  yet  heart-felt  requi- 
escant. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

W.  GORDON  Mc  CASE, 

President. 


On  motion  Vice-President  Valentine  was  requested  to  take 
the  Chair  and  the  thanks  of  the  Society  were  returned  to  Presi- 
dent McCabe  for  his  report  and  his  services  to  the  Society. 

Mr.  W.  G.  Stanard  stated  that  he  desired  to  call  the  attention 
of  the  Society  to  the  valuable  collection  of  unpublished  papers 
relating  to  the  early  history  of  Virginia,  which  are  in  the  Li- 
brary of  Congress,  especially  the  copies  made  by  Miss  Kingsbury 
from  the  Ferrar  papers.  On  motion  the  Corresponding  Secretary 
was  directed,  if  the  consent  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  be  ob- 
tained, to  have  photostat  copies  made  of  a  certain  number  of 
these  papers. 

The  attention  of  the  meeting  was  called  to  a  report  that  the 
very  valuable  supplementary  list  of  Virginia  Revolutionary 
Soldiers  (containing  about  18,000  names)  which  has  been  pre- 
pared by  the  State  Library  might  not  be  printed. 

On  motion  it  was  imanimously  resolved  that  Messrs  McCabe 
and  Stanard  be  requested  to  call  on  the  State  Librarian  or  the 
Governor  of  Virginia,  and  m-ge  the  publication  at  once  of  this 
very  important  list,  and  the  follov/ing  resolutions,  offered  by 
Mr.  Morgan  P.  Robinson  were  also  adopted,  the  measures  pre 
scribed  in  them  to  be  taken  if  necessary. 

WHEREAS,  the  Virginia  State  Library  Report  for  1911  con- 
tained, as  the  report  of  the  Department  of  Archives  and  History, 
a  List  of  Revolutionary  Soldiers  of  Virginia,  containing  the  names 
of  some  thirty-six  thousand  (36,000)  Virginians,'^  who  partici- 
pated in  the  Revolution;  and 


PROCEEDINGS.  XVU 

WHEREAS,  the  Report  not  only  made  no  claim  to  even  an 
approximate  completeness,  but  also  anticipated  a  continuation 
of  this  work  through  the  publication  of  supplemental  reports 
from  time  to  time,  as  additional  data  should  become  available; 
and 

WHEREAS,  at  the  time  of  the  preparation  of  this  initial  Re- 
port, no  access  was  permitted  to  the  large  mass  of  records  on 
file  in  the  Adjutant  General's  Office  in  Washington;  and 

WHEREAS,  by  War  Department  Orders  of  March  26th, 
1912,  access  is  now  permitted  to  these  records,  and  in  accor- 
dance therewith  the  State  Library  has  at  much  expense  had 
photostat  copies  made  of  several  hundred  muster-rolls  of  Vir- 
ginia troops,  from  which  copies,  the  Department  of  Archives 
and  History  prepared  a  supplemental  Report,  containing  some 
eighteen  thousand  (18,000)  additional  names,  which  Report  was 
duly  forwarded  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Printing  as  a 
portion  of  the  Annual  Report  of  the  Virginia  State  Library;  and 

WHEREAS,  the  Library  Board  has  been  at  much  expense  in 
compiling  and  preparing  the  said  supplemental  Report;  and 

WHEREAS,  the  status  of  Virginia's  contribution  to  the  Rev- 
olution cannot  be  properly  rated  or  evaluated  imtil  we  have 
complete  information  upon  the  subject, — and  that  in  an  easily 
available  form; 
NOW,  THEREFORE,  BE  IT  RESOLVED,— 

FIRST— That  the  said  Society, — appreciating  the  great 
value  of  this  new  and  heretofore  unavailable  data  and  its  ab- 
solute necessity  in  any  just  interpretation  of  the  State's  par- 
ticipation in  the  American  Revolution, — does  hereby  respect- 
fully request  His  Excellency  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  to  take 
such  steps  as  may  be  necessary  to  have  this  supplemental  Re- 
port printed  in  full,  and  thus  preserve  this  important  and  not 
otherwise  available  link  in  the  history  of  the  State  of  Virginia; 

SECOND — That  copies  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the 
members  of  the  Library  Board  and  to  the  members  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  from  the  City  of  Richmond,  and  that  copies  be 
given  to  the  press, — all  of  whom  are  requested  to  co-operate 
with  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  to  the  end  that  the  said 
Report  be  printed  in  full ;  and 


XVin  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

THIRD — That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  his 
Excellency,  the  Governor,  with  the  request  that  he  do  give  them 
his  earnest  consideration,  and  that  he  do  take  such  steps  as  may 
be  necessary  in  the  premises. 

The  next  business  was  the  election  of  officers  and  members  of 
the  Board. 

On  motion  a  nominating  committee  was  appointed.  The 
President  appointed  Messrs.  J.  H.  Eckenrode  and  M.  P.  Robin- 
son members  of  a  Nominating  Committee.  They  retired  and  on 
returning  recommended  the  re-election  of  all  the  officers  and 
members  of  the  Board  as  follows; 


President — W.  Gordon  McCabe. 

Vice-Presidents, — Archer  Anderson,  Edward  V.  Valentine 
and  Lyon  G.  Tyler. 

Corresponding  Secretary  and  Librarian, — ^William  G.  Stanard. 

Recording  Secretary, — David  C.  Richardson. 

Treasurer, — Robert  A.  Lancaster,  Jr. 


Executive  Committee,— C.  V.  Meredith,  C.  W.  Kent,  W. 
Meade  Clark,  A.  C.  Gordon,  S.  S.  P.  Patteson,  S.  H.  Yonge, 
William  H.  Pahner,  Rt.  Rev.  A.  M.  Randolph,  John  Stewart 
Bryan,  Daniel  Grinnan,  J.  P.  McGuire,  Jr.,  and  William  A. 
Anderson. 

There  being  no  further  business,  on  motion,  the  meeting  ad- 
journed. 


THE 


Virginia  Magazine 

OF 

HISTORY  AND  BIOGRAPHY. 

Vol.  XXI.  APRIL,  1913.  No.  2 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT. 


Virginia  Seventeenth  Century  Records. 


From  the  Original  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society 


Commission  and  Instruction  to  the  Eari  of  Orkney  for  the  Gov- 
ernment of  Virginia. 


(Continued) 


20.  And  it  having  been  further  represented  th&,t  a  Duty  to 
be  raised  upon  Liquors  Imported  into  our  said  Colony  would 
be  the  most  easy  Means  that  can  be  found  out  for  the  better 
Support  of  that  Government,  You  are  therefore  to  recommend 
to  the  Assembly  the  raising  of  such  Impost  &  continuance  of 
the  same,  which  you  shall  Permit  them  to  Appropriate  in  such 
Manner  that  it  be  apply 'd  to  the  Uses  of  the  Government  and 
to  None  Other  whatsoever. 


114  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

21.  You  are  to  take  Care  that  in  all  Acts  or  Orders  to  be 
Pass'd  within  that  our  Colony  in  any  Case  for  Levying  Money 
or  Imposing  fines  &  Penalties  express  mention  be  made  that  the 
Same  is  Granted  or  reserv'd  to  Us  Our  Heirs  and  Successors  for 
the  Publick  Uses  of  that  Our  Colony,  and  the  Support  of  the 
Government  thereof,  as  by  the  said  Act  or  Order  Shall  be  di- 
rected. 

22.  Whereas  we  have  been  inform 'd  that  during  the  late 
War  Intelligence  has  been  had  in  France  of  the  State  of  our 
Plantations  by  letters  from  private  Persons  to  their  Corres- 
pondents in  great  Britain  taken  on  board  Ships  coming  from 
the  Plantations  and  carry'd  into  France  which  may  be  of  Dan- 
gerous consequence  OUR  WILL  &  PLEASURE  is  that 
you  Signify  to  all  Merchants  Planters  and  Others  that  they  be 
very  Cautious  in  time  of  War  whenever  that  shall  happen  in 
giving  any  Accoimt  by  Letters  of  the  Publick  State  and  Condi- 
tion of  our  Colony  &  Dominion  of  Virginia,  and  You  are  further 
to  give  directions  to  all  Masters  of  Ships  or  Other  Persons  to 
whom  you  may  Intrust  your  Letters  that  they  put  Such  Letters 
into  a  Bagg,  with  Sxifficient  Weight  to  Sink  the  Same  immedia- 
diately  in  Case  of  Iminent  Danger  from  the  Enemy,  and  you 
are  also  to  let  the  Merchants  and  Planters  know  how  greatly 
it  is  for  their  Interest  that  their  Letters  shou'd  not  fall  into  the 
hands  of  the  Enemy  and  therefore  that  they  shou'd  give  the 
like  Orders  to  the  Masters  of  Ships  in  relation  to  their  Letters; 
And  you  are  further  to  advise  all  Masters  of  Ships  that  they  do 
Sink  all  Letters  in  Case  of  Danger  in  the  Manner  aforesaid. 

23.  And  Whereas  in  the  late  War  the  Merchants  and  Plan- 
ters in  the  West  Indies  did  Correspond  and  Trade  with  the 
French  and  Carry  Intelligence  to  them  to  the  great  Prejudice 
and  Hazard  of  the  British  Plantations,  You  are  therefore  by 
all  Possible  Methods  to  endeavour  to  hinder  aU  such  Trade  and 
Correspondence  with  the  French  whose  Strength  in  the  West  In- 
dies gives  very  Just  Apprehensions  of  the  Mischiefs  that  may 
ensue  if  the  utmost  Care  be  not  taken  to  prevent  them. 

24.  And  Whereas  Several  Inconveniencies  have  Arisen  to 
Our  Government  in  the  Plantations  by  Gifts  and  Presents  made 
to  our  Governors  by  the  General  Assembly    IT  IS  OUR  EX- 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  116 

PRESS  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  that  neither  you  our  Gov 
emor  Lieutenant  Governor  Commander  in  Chief  or  President 
in  the  Coimcil  of  our  Colony  of  Virginia  for  the  time  being  do 
give  your  or  their  Consent  to  the  Passing  any  Law  or  Act  for 
any  Gift  or  Present  to  be  made  to  you  or  them  by  the  Assembly 
and  that  neither  you  nor  they  do  receive  any  Gifts  or  Presents 
from  the  Assembly  or  others  on  any  Account;  or  in  any  Manner 
whatsoever  upon  Pain  of  our  highest  displeasure  and  of  being 
recall'd  from  that  our  Government. 

25.  And  we  do  further  direct  and  require  that  this  declara- 
tion of  our  Royal  Will  and  Pleasure  be  Communicated  to  the 
Assembly  at  their  first  Meeting  after  your  arrival  in  that  Colony 
and  Enter'd  in  the  Registers  of  our  Coimcil  and  Assembly  that 
all  Persons  whom  it  may  concern  may  govern  themselves  ac- 
cordingly. 

26.  And  Whereas  we  are  Willing  in  the  best  Maimer  to 
provide  for  the  Support  of  the  Government  in  Virginia  by  Set- 
ting a  Part  a  Sufficient  allowance  to  such  as  shall  be  our  Lieu- 
tenant Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  residing  for  the  time 
being  within  the  Same  OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  THERE 
FORE  IS  That  when  it  shall  happen  that  you  shall  absent 
yourself  from  Our  said  Colony,  one  full  Moiety  of  the  Salary  & 
of  all  Perqmsites  &  Emoltmients  whatsoever  which  wou'd  other- 
wise become  due  unto  you  shall  during  the  time  of  your  Absence 
from  the  said  Colony  be  paid  and  Satisfy'd  unto  Such  Lieut. 
Governor,  or  Commander  in  Chief  or  President  of  our  Coimcil 
who  shall  be  resident  upon  the  place  for  the  time  being,  which 
we  do  hereby  Order  and  allot  to  him  towards  his  Maintenance 
and  for  the  better  Support  of  the  Dignity  of  our  Government. 

27.  And  Whereas  great  Prejudice  may  happen  to  our  Ser- 
vice and  to  the  security  of  that  Colony  by  your  Absence  from 
those  Parts  without  Sufficient  Cause  &  Especial  Leave  from  us 
for  Prevention  thereof  You  are  not  upon  any  Pretence  whatso- 
ever to  come  to  Europe  from  your  Government  without  having 
first  Obtain'd  leave  for  so  doing  from  us  under  Our  Sign  Manual 
and  Signet  or  by  our  Order  in  our  Privy  Council,  Yet  Neverthe- 
less in  Case  of  Sickness  you  may  go  to  New  York  or  any  other 
of  our  Neighbouring  Plantations  and  there  stay  for  such  a  Space 


116  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

of  time  as  the  recovery  of  your  Health  may  absolutely  require. 

28.  You  are  not  to  Permit  any  Clause  whatsoever  to  be  in- 
serted in  any  Law  for  Levying  Money  or  the  Value  of  Money 
whereby  the  same  shall  not  be  made  lyable  to  be  accotmted  for 
unto  Us  here  in  Great  Britain  and  to  our  Commissioners  of  our 
Treasury  or  Our  High  Treasurer  for  the  time  being. 

29.  And  We  do  particularly  require  and  Enjoin  you  upon 
Pain  of  OvLT  Highest  displeasure  to  take  care  that  fair  Books  of 
Accounts  of  all  Receipts  and  Payments  of  all  such  Money  be 
dvdy  kept  and  the  truth  thereof  Attested  upon  Oath,  And  that 
the  said  Book  be  transmitted  every  half  Year  or  Oftener  to  our 
Commissioners  of  our  Treasury  or  to  o\ir  high  Treastu-er  for  the 
time  being  and  to  our  Commission'ers  for  Trade  and  Plantations 
and  Duplicates  thereof  by  the  next  Conveyance  in  which  Books 
shall  be  Specify'd  every  Particular  Sum  rais'd  or  dispos'd  of 
together  with  the  Names  of  the  Persons  to  whom  any  Payment 
shall  be  made  to  the  End  we  may  be  Satisfy'd  of  the  Right 
and  due  Application  of  the  Revenues  of  our  Said  Colony. 

30.  You  are  not  to  Suffer  any  Publick  money  whatsoever  to 
be  issued  or  Dispos'd  of  otherways  than  by  Warrant  under 
your  hand  by  and  with  the  Advice  of  ovlt  said  Council,  But  the 
Assembly  may  nevertheless  be  permitted  from  time  to  time  to 
View  &  Examine  the  Accoimts  of  Money  or  Value  of  Money 
dispos'd  of  by  Vertue  of  Laws  made  by  them,  which  you  are  to 
Signify  unto  them  as  there  shall  be  Occasion. 

31 .  AND  IT  LS  OUR  EXPRESS  WILL  AND  PLEASURE 
that  no  Law  for  raising  any  Imposition  on  Wines  and  other 
Strong  Liquors  be  made  to  Continue  for  less  than  one  whole 
Year  as  also  that  all  other  Laws  whatsoever  for  the  good  Gov- 
ernment and  Support  of  the  said  Colony  be  made  Indefinite  and 
without  Limitation  of  time  except  the  Same  be  for  a  Temporary 
end  and  which  shall  expire  and  have  its  full  Effect  within  a 
Certain  time. 

32.  AND  THEREFORE  you  Shall  not  Re-Enact  any  Law 
which  hath  or  Shall  have  been  once  Enacted  there  Except  upon 
very  Urgent  Ocassions,  but  in  no  Case  more  than  once  without 
our  Express  consent. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  117 

33.  You  shall  take  Care  that  an  Act  Pass'd  here  in  the  Sixth 
Year  of  the  Reign  of  her  late  Majesty  Queen  Anne  for  Ascer- 
taining the  Rates  of  foreign  Coins  in  our  Plantations  in  America 
be  daily  observ'd  and  put  in  Execution. 

34.  And  You  are  particularly  not  to  pass  any  Law,  or  do  any 
Act,  by  Grant  Settlement  or  Otherwise  whereby  our  Revenue 
may  be  lessen'd  or  Impair'd  without  our  Especial  leave  or  Com- 
mand therein. 

35.  You  shall  take  Care  that  the  Members  of  the  Assembly 
be  Elected  only  by  Freeholders  as  being  more  agreeable  to  the 
Custom  of  this  Kingdom  to  which  you  are  as  near  as  may  be  to 
Conform  yourself. 

36.  You  shall  reduce  the  Salary  of  the  Members  of  the  As- 
sembly to  such  a  Moderate  Proportion  as  may  be  no  grievence  to 
the  Cotmtry  wherein  Nevertheless  you  are  to  use  your  discre- 
tion, so  as  no  inconvenience  may  arise  thereby. 

37.  Whereas  an  Act  has  been  Pass'd  in  Virginia  on  16  April 
in  the  Year  1684  Entitled  an  Act  for  Altering  the  time  of  hold- 
ing General  Courts,  You  are  to  Propose  to  the  Next  Assembly 
(if  the  Same  be  not  already  done)  that  a  clause  be  added  to  the 
said  Act  whereby  it  may  be  provided  that  the  Power  of  Appoint- 
ing Courts  to  be  held  at  any  time  whatsoever  remain  in  you 
or  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  that  our  said  Colony  for  the  time 
being. 

38.  You  shall  not  remit  any  fines  or  forfeitures  whatsoever 
above  the  Stun  of  Ten  Pounds,  nor  dispose  of  any  Escheats 
fines  or  forfeitures  whatsoever  until  upon  Signifying  unto 
our  Commissioners  of  our  Treasury,  or  Our  high  Treasurer 
for  the  time  being,  and  to  oiu-  Commissoners  for  Trade  and 
Plantations,  the  Nature  of  the  Offence  and  the  Occasion  of  such 
fines  forfeitures  or  Escheats  with  the  Particular  Sums  or  Value 
thereof  which  you  are  to  do  with  all  Speed  Until  you  shall  have 
receiv'd  our  Directions  therein,  But  you  may  in  the  mean  time 
Suspend  the  Payment  of  the  said  Fines  and  Forfeitures. 

39.  You  are  to  require  the  Secretary  of  our  Said  Colony  or 
his  Deputy  for  the  time  being  to  furnish  you  with  Transcripts 
of  all  such  Acts  and  Publick  Orders  as  shall  be  made  from  time 


118  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

to  time  together  with  a  Copy  of  the  Journals  of  the  Council  to 
the  end  the  same  transmitted  Unto  us,  and  to  our  Commission- 
ers for  Trade  and  Plantations  as  above  directed,  which  he  is 
duly  to  perform  upon  Pain  of  incurring  the  Forfeiture  of  his 
Place. 

40.  You  are  also  to  require  from  the  Clerk  of  the  Assembly 
or  other  Proper  Officer  Transcripts  of  all  the  Journals  and  other 
Proceedings  of  the  said  Assembly  to  the  end  the  same  may  in 
like  manner  be  transmitted  as  aforesaid. 

41.  You  are  likewise  to  send  a  list  of  all  Officers  Employ 'd 
under  your  Government  together  with  all  Publick  Charges,  and 
an  Account  of  the  Present  Revenue  with  the  Probability  of 
the  Increase  or  Diminution  of  it  imder  every  head  or  Article 
thereof. 

42.  You  shall  not  displace  any  of  the  Judges,  Justices,  Sher- 
ifs  or  other  Officers  or  Ministers  within  our  said  Colony  without 
good  and  Sufficient  cause  to  be  Signified  to  us  and  to  our  Com- 
missioners for  Trade  and  Plantations. 

43.  And  to  prevent  Arbitrary  removals  of  Judges  and  Jus- 
tices of  the  Peace  You  are  not  to  express  any  Limitation  of 
time  in  the  Commissions  which  you  are  to  Grant  (with  the 
Advice  and  Consent  of  our  said  Council)  to  Persons  fit  for 
those  Employments  nor  shall  you  Execute  by  yourself  or 
Deputy  any  of  the  said  Offices  nor  Suffer  any  Person  to  Ex- 
ecute more  Offices  than  One  by  Deputy. 

44.  Whereas  there  are  Several  Offices  within  our  said  Col- 
ony Granted  imder  our  Great  Seal  of  this  Kingdom  and  that 
our  Service  may  be  very  much  prejudiced  by  reason  of  the  ab- 
sence of  the  Patentees  and  by  their  Appointing  Deputies  not 
fit  to  Officiate  in  their  Stead  You  are  therefore  to  Inspect  the 
said  Offices  and  to  Enquire  into  the  Capacity  and  behaviour  of 
the  Persons  now  Exercising  them,  and  to  Report  thereupon  to 
us  and  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  what 
you  think  fit  to  be  done  or  Alter'd  in  relation  theretmto,  & 
you  are  upon  the  Misbehaviour  of  any  of  the  said  Patentees  or 
their  Deputies  to  Suspend  them  from  the  Execution  of  their 
Places  till  you  shall  have  represented  the  whole  Matter  and  re- 
ceive our  Directions  therein,  and  in  Case  of  the  Suspension  of 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  119 

any  such  Officer  IT  IS  OUR  EXPRESS  WILL  AND  PLEAS- 
URE that  you  take  Care  that  the  Person  appointed  to  Execute 
the  Place  during  such  Suspension  do  give  Sufficient  Security  to 
the  Person  Suspended  to  be  answerable  to  him  for  the  Pro- 
fits accruing  during  such  Suspension  in  Case  we  shall  think 
fit  to  restore  him  to  his  Place  again  But  you  shall  not  by  Colour 
of  any  Power  or  Authority  hereby  or  Otherwise  Granted  or 
mention'd  to  be  Granted  imto  you  take  upon  you  to  give  Grant 

Dispose  of  any  Office  or  Place  within  our  said  Colony  which 
now  is  or  shall  be  Granted  under  the  Great  Seal  of  Great  Britain 
any  otherwise  than  that  you  may  upon  the  Vacancy  of  any  such 
Place  or  Office  or  Suspension  of  any  such  Officer  by  you  as 
aforesaid  put  in  any  fit  Person  to  Officiate  in  the  Interval  till 
you  shall  have  represented  the  Matter  imto  us  and  to  our  Com- 
missioners for  Trade  and  Plantations  as  aforesaid,  which  you 
are  to  do  by  the  first  Opportunity  and  till  the  said  Office  or 
Place  be  dispos'd  of  by  Us,  Our  Heirs  or  Successors  imder  the 
Great  Seal  of  Great  Britain,  or  that  our  further  Directions  be 
given  therein  And  OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  is  that  you 
do  Countenance  and  give  all  due  Encouragement  to  all  our 
Patent  Officers  in  the  Enjoyment  of  their  Legal  and  Accustomed 
Fees,  Rights,  Privileges,  and  Emolimients  according  to  the  true 
Intent  and  meaning  of  their  Patents. 

45.  Whereas  We  are  above  all  things  desirous  that,  all  Our 
Subjects  may  enjoy  their  Legal  Rights  and  Properties  You  are 
to  take  Especial  Care  that  if  any  Person  be  Committed  for 
any  Criminal  Matters  imless  for  Treason  &  Felony,  plainly 
and  Especially  expressed  in  the  Warrant  of  Commitment 
to  have  free  Liberty  to  Petition  by  himself  or  otherwise 
the  Chief  Barron  or  any  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Common 
Pleas  for  a  Writ  of  Habeas  Corpus,  which  upon  such 
Application  shall  be  granted  and  Served  on  the  Provost 
Marshall  Goaler  or  other  Officer  having  the  Custody  of  such 
Prisoner,  or  shall  be  left  at  the  Goal  or  Place  where  the  Prisoner 
is  confin'd  and  the  said  Provost  Marshall  or  other  Officer  shall 
within  three  days  after  such  service  on  the  Petitioners  Paying 
the  Fees  &  Charges,  and  giving  Security  that  he  will  not  escape 
by  the  way  make  return  of  the  Writ  and  Prisoner  before  the 


120  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Judge  who  granted  out  the  said  Writ  and  there  Certify  the 
true  Cause  of  the  Imprisonment,  and  the  said  Baron  or 
Judge  shall  Discharge  such  Prisoner  taking  his  Recognizance 
and  Sureties  for  his  Appearance  at  the  Court  where  the 
Offence  is  Cognizable,  and  Certifie  the  said  Writ  and  Recogni- 
zance into  the  Court  tmless  Such  Offences  appear  to  the  said 
Baron  or  Judge  not  Bailable  by  the  Law  of  England. 

46.  And  in  Case  the  Said  Baron  or  Judge  shall  refuse  to 
grant  a  Writ  of  Habeas  Corpus  on  View  of  the  Copy  of  Com- 
mitment or  upon  Oath  made  of  such  Copy  having  been  deny'd 
the  Prisoner  or  any  Person  requiring  the  Same  in  his  behalf 
or  shall  delay  to  discharge  the  Prisoner  after  the  granting  such 
Writ  the  said  Baron  or  Judge  shall  incur  the  forfeiture  of  his 
Place. 

47.  You  are  likewise  to  declare  our  Pleasure  that  in  Case  the 
Provost  Marshal  or  other  Officer  shall  Imprison  any  Person 
above  Twelve  Hours  except  by  a  Mittimus  setting  forth  the 
Cause  thereof  he  be  removed  from  his  said  Office. 

48.  And  upon  the  Application  of  any  Person  wrongfully 
Committeed  the  Baron  or  Judge  shall  issue  his  Warrant  to  the 
Provost  Marshall  or  other  Officer  to  bring  the  Prisoner  before 
him  who  shall  be  discharged  without  Bail  or  Paying  Fees,  & 
the  Provost  Marshall  or  other  Officer  refusing  Obedience  to 
such  Warrant  shall  be  thereupon  removed,  and  if  the  said  Baron 
or  Judge  denies  the  Warrant  he  shall  likewise  Incur  the  forfeit- 
ure of  his  Place. 

49.  And  You  shall  give  directions  that  no  Prisoner  being 
set  at  large  by  an  Habeas  Corpus  be  recommitted  for  the  said 
Offence  but  by  the  Court  where  he  is  bound  to  appear  and  if 
any  Baron,  Judge,  Provost  Marshall  or  other  Officer  contrary 
hereunto  shall  recommit  such  Person  so  Bail'd  or  deliver 'd  you 
are  to  remove  him  from  his  Place,  and  if  the  Provost  Marshall 
or  other  Officer  having  the  Custody  of  the  Prisoner  neglects  to 
return  the  Habeas  Corpus  or  refuses  a  Copy  of  the  Committ- 
ment within  Six  hours  after  demand  made  by  the  Prisoner  or 
any  other  in  his  behalf  shall  likewise  Incurr  the  forfeiture  of  his 
Place. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  121 

50.  And  for  the  better  Prevention  of  long  Imprisonments 
you  are  to  appoint  two  Courts  of  Oyer  &  Terminer  to  be  held 
Yearly,  Viz,  on  the  Second  Thursday  in  December  and  the 
Second  Tuesday  in  June,  the  Charge  whereof  to  be  paid  by  the 
Publick  Treasury  of  Our  said  Colony  not  exceeding  One  Hund- 
red Pounds  each  Session. 

51.  You  are  to  take  Care  that  all  Prisoners  in  Case  of  Trea- 
son or  Felony  have  free  Liberty  to  Petition  in  Open  Courts  for 
their  Tryals,  that  they  be  indicted  at  the  first  Coiut  of  Oyer 
and  Terminer  unless  it  appears  upon  Oath  that  the  Witnesses 
against  them  cou'd  not  be  produced  and  that  they  be  try'd  the 
Second  Court  or  discharg'd  and  the  Baron  or  Judge  upon  Mo- 
tion made  the  last  Day  of  the  Sessions  in  Open  Court  is  to  Bail 
the  Prisoners,  or  upon  the  refusal  of  the  said  Baron  or  Judge 
and  Provost  Marshal  or  Other  Officer  to  do  their  respective 
Duties  herein  they  shall  be  remov'd  from  their  Places. 

(To  be  Continued.) 


122  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676. 


(Abstracts  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury,  and  copies  of  the  McDonald  and 
De  Jarnette  Papers,  Virginia  State  Library.) 


(continued) 


Letter  of  Thomas  Ludwell,  June  24,  1667 
Dutch  fleet  in  Hampton  Roads 

[Printed  in  this  Magazine  iv,  229-236] 


Thomas  Ludwell  to  Lord  Berkeley,  June  24,  1667 

[Printed  in  this  Magazine  iv,  236-240;  but  the  following 
postscript  was  not  printed] 


My  lord  the  shallop  taken  by  the  Dutch  mentioned  in  our 
declaration  was  bound  with  one  Galpin  to  Cape  fere  to  bring 
of  some  people  from  thence  where  they  are  in  great  distresse,  to 
w"*"  they  are  reduced  more  by  factiom  then  necessity  if  what  Mr. 
Vassall  wrights  be  true,  and  wast  and  this  Galpin  is  the  cheife 
promoter  of  that  desertion  of  w'**  I  will  give  your  honnor  a  fuller 
acco*  when  I  am  a  little  more  composed  my  lord.  I  have  like- 
wise by  the  Cover'"'  comand  sent  you  our  proceedings  in  y" 
cessation*  and  a  Coppy  of  the  lord  Baltemores  instnun*  whereby 
he  makes  it  voyd,  w*"^  our  declaration  ag*  him  w"*"  the  Cover' 
desires  you  to  comand  Coll  Moryson  to  deliver  when  time  serves; 
if  the  west  country  men  complanye  for  the  losse  of  theire  shipps, 
I  beseech  you  Lord^  to  consider  one  argument  more,  w'=''  is, 
that  the  Cover'  issued  out  his  order  to  the  collectors  in  every 
river  not  to  cleere  theire  shipps  till  the  10'^''  June  w*=''  was  five 
dayes  after  theire  losse,  w'=''  order  had  y*^  masters  obeyed  they 

f-Tobacco  plantation. 
*-Sic. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  123 

had  been  safe  as  many  as  belonged  to  this  Govemm*  and  for 
those  who  belonged  to  Maryl*^  they  came  at  theire  pleasure  and 
never  came  neer  the  Gover'  for  any  orders  though  they  saw 
there  was  noe  fort  at  poynt  comfort  in  w''*'  place  I  believe  they 
have  confidence  though  there  be  noe  gunns. 

L^  Barcley  of  Stratton 

Memoranda  that  the  representation  of  the  Govern  ■■  &  Coun- 
cill  following  here  a  second  time  was  taken  away. 
[Indorsed] 
These- 
for  the  Right  Hono'ble  John  Lord  Berkeley  of  Stratton  one  of 
the  Lords  of  his  Ma'ties  most  hono'ble  Privy  Councell.     24 
Jime  1667. 

Thomas  Ludwell  to  Lord 
John  Berkley. 

Original  O  &  P. 


Henry  Norwood  to  Secretary  Williamson 
(Copy) 

Most  Hon''!  S^  July  17,  '67. 

When  I  wayted  on  you  some  time  since  to  enterteyne  you 
w**"  some  discoures  touching  the  affayeres  of  Virginia,  you  were 
pleased  (p'paratory  to  such  discourse)  to  desire  a  sight  of  his 
Ma'tyes  Grant  now  depending  in  some  short  extract  and  also 
the  heads  of  a  former  Charter  made  to  the  Company  that  first 
planted  there. 

For  3  weeks  past  I  have  beene  confined  to  my  Chamber  by 
a  troublesome  distemper  w'^^to  this  houre  will  not  give  me  leave 
to  kiss  yo'  hands  w^^'both  the  s^  papers,  and  in  this  expectation 
of  paying  you  that  respect,  I  have  hindered  M^  Ludwell  to 
sollicite  y"  on  y"  same  acc*^  whose  coment  uppon  each  particu- 
lar will  much  enlighten  the  obscurityes  thereof  when  ere  y'u 


124  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

shall  be  pleased  to  admitt  him  to  y''  audience  for  y*  purpose, 
here  inclosed  are  the  2  papers,  and  I  most  truly  remayne 

¥"■  most  humble  and 

most  obedient  serv* 
[signed]  H.   Norwood. 

[Indorced] 

For  the  right  Hon'ble  S''.  Joseph  WiUiamson  Principall  sec- 
retary of  State  at  Whitehall 
17'»' July,  1667. 


Grievances  of  Virginia 
(Copy) 

According  to  yo*"  hon"  desire  I  have  Inserted  what  Could 
gather  by  Severall  in  Virginia  what  might  be  their  grievances. 

Imp 'mis 

The  extream  and  grievous  taxes  they  ly  under  Continually 
and  yet  the  tobaccoes  that  are  Raised  not  expended  to  the  de- 
sired end. 

as  First  severall  himdred  thousand.  Raised  for  building  of 
forts  and  yet  no  forts  that  any  wayes  serviceable  built  in  the 
Coimtry. 

2  Several  hundred  thousand  Raised  for  maintaining  of 
Agents  in  England  as  Major  generall  Smith ;  Secretary  Ludwell ; 
&  Coll  Parkes  and  yet  no  businesse  effected. 

Sly.  2  millions  of  taboccoes  Raised  for  building  of  forts  at 
the  heads  of  the  Rivers  upon  great  mens  new  plantations  and 
settlements. 

2  The  great  Injiiryes  that  is  done  in  Courts  by  the  Insinua- 
tion of  some  that  make  advantages  by  the  govemo'"  passion, 
age,  or  weaknesse. 

3  the  great  sway  that  those  of  the  Council  bear  over  the 
Rest  of  the  Assembly  in  matter  of  Lawes  and  also  in  orders  upon 
Appeals  being  Commonly  Appointed  Chairmen  in  all  Committ- 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1670.  125 

41y  the  gouvem'  tollerating  &  lycensing  some  to  trade  with 
the  Indians  though  barbarous  enemyes  whereby  they  were 
furnished  with  powder  shot  and  gunns,  part  of  which  some  say 
his  Majesty  sent  in  for  the  supply  of  Virginia. 

5  and  lastly,  which  hath  been  the  main  cause  of  those  tumults 
the  not  tymely  suppressing  the  Incursions  of  those  form'dable 
savages  whereby  many  men  over  Cut  of  and  severall  planta- 
tions deserted. 

[This  paper,  which  is  not  dated,  is  evidently  out  of  place  and 
probably  belongs  to  1675. — Ed.] 


Charges  Against  Captain  Lightfoot  1667 
(Copy) 

The  Marchant  of  the  handmaid  one  of  the  Virginia  Shipps 
lately  Arrived  Affirme  That  Capt'n  Lightfoot  Comander  of 
his  Ma'ties  Shipp  y^  Elizabeth  had  notice  a  day  before  the  4 
dutch  shipps  came  into  James  River  that  they  were  upon  the 
Coast,  and  y*  verry  morning  they  did  Arive,  he  was  told  they 
had  taken  Capt.  Conway  who  fought  them  Six  howeres  at  the 
mouth  of  y^  River  yet  he  made  light  of  it,  and  went  to  a  Wedd- 
ing with  his  wench  y*  he  carried  w***  him  from  England,  all  the 
Officers  were  Likewise  ashore,  he  further  sath  that  Lightfoot 
had  taken  aboard  his  shipp  a  greate  quantity  of  tobacco  at 
fraight,  and  that  his  men  were  ashore  geting  more  aboard  when 
the  EHzabeth  was  burnt,  and  that  y^  said  Lightfoot  brought  to 
Virginia  twenty  p'sons  w"**  Paid  for  their  Passage,  and  that 
several  had  contracted  with  him  for  Tunnage  home.  That  had 
he  been  aboard  w'^'^  his  men  he  might  have  preserved  the  Mer- 
chant shippes,  and  if  he  had  gon  down  to  Conway  as  soone 
as  he  had  advise  of  the  4  Shippes  being  on  the  Coast  these 
two  shippes  might  have  tooke  the  Enemies. 

Those  men  w=^  were  aboard  the  Elizabeth  ffired  but  one 
Gunne  against  y*  Enimy. 


126  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Col.  Wm'Travers  to  Mr  Giles  cale  1676 
(Copy) 
The  Coppy  of  a  letter  from  Coll:  Wm.  Travers  to  M^  Giles 
Cale  y«  13*»^  of  May  1676. 

Brother  Cale  S'  y^  govemer  is  at  y®  falls  of  James  River 
dayly  expecting  y^  ennemy  &  wishes  he  could  be  heare  w**"  us, 
&  has  writ  to  Coll:  Goodrich  &  Cap*  Hawkins  to  Rayse  w* 
fforse  they  can  to  destroy  those  barbarous  Indeyans,  but  he 
understands  y*  tis  y^  Susquehannos  y*  has  done  us  y*  mischiefe 
&  hops  y*  wee  will  not  suffer  hallfe  of  y'm  to  Retume  but  do  not 
specke  at  all  of  y^  portobaccoes  w^^  makes  me  thinke  he  has  not 
bin  Rightley  informed,  pray  God  preserve  &  keepe  us       I  am 

Yo''  Humble  servant 
Will  Travers 
[Indorsed] 

S''.  this  comes  this  post  from  M' 
Cale   Postm'   in   Bristoll  to  M'. 
Gardiner  for  your  hon^ 
[signed]  Jos  Hoch. 

CoL.  Papers  Virginia. 


The  Case  of  Giles  Bland,*  1676. 
(Copy) 
M^  John  Bland  Merch*  having  settled  two  of  his  Brothers 
in  Virginia  under  certaine  Articles,  Agreements,  and  Covenants, 
supplied  the  Plantation  in  w''''  they  were  settled  to  the  vallew 
of  above  ten  thousand  pounds,  Expecting  proportionalle  Re- 
turns from  them.  But  the  two  Brothers  dying  one  of  them  left 
a  Widdowe,  who  writt  to  M"".  John  Bland  acquainting  him,  that 
there  was  a  considerable  Estate  left  and  desired  him  to  send  one 
over  to  take  care  thereof,  and  to  settle  matters  betweene  them. 
And  here  the  sayd  John  Bland  after  some  tyme  did  send  his 
only  sone  Giles  Bland  whom  he  had  bredd  a  merchant  to  take 
posession  and  settle  things  on  his  behalfe.     Giles  Bland  upon 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  127 

his  Arrivall  there  appHes  himself e  to  y"  Best  means  he  cotild 
think  of  for  Accomodating  y«  whole  affaire  with  his  Aimt  in 
which  he  found  many  difficulties.  And  comeing  to  the  house  of 
Thomas  Ludwell  Esq""  in  Company  with  S^  Henry  Chetsly, 
[Chichley]  and  after  they  had  dranke  plentifully  there  happened 
a  discours  betweene  Giles  Bland  and  Thomas  Ludwell,  which 
Giles  Bland  being  in  Drinke  thought  two  severe  in  Relation  to 
his  ffather;  upon  which  Provocation,  Bland  told  him  he  dealt 
Basely  and  unworthely  to  cast  such  Aspersions  upon  his  father 
and  himselfe  and  having  both  dranke  of  y°  same  Cupp  and  being 
transported  with  passion,  upon  a  father  Exchange  of  Lan- 
guadge  fell  to  Bloes,  and  after  Exchanged  Gloves  to  meete  at  y^ 
Place  by  them  apoynted  y®  next  Morning.  Bland  sleeps  not  all 
night,  and  Continuing  hot  Headed,  hasted  to  y^  Place  apoynted 
where  missing  Ludwell,  he  whent  and  Nailed  y®  Glove  at  y^ 
doore  where  y^  Grand  Assembly  used  to  sett,  writing  some 
words  under  itt.  But  M''  Ludwell  more  wisely  sought  his 
Reparation  before  y^  Governor  and  Council  where  Bland  was 
ordered  to  Aske  y®  sayd  Ludwell  forgiveness,  which  he  accord- 
ingly performed  to  y^  satisfaction  of  y®  Court,  and  the  Court 
was  farther  pleased  to  fine  him  500  £  for  his  abuse  done  to  y* 
Assembly  in  Nayling  upp  Ludwells  Glove  at  theire  doore  as 
will  appeare  by  the  sayd  order.  In  which  there  is  an  additionall 
Clause,  that  the  payment  thereof  should  be  suspended  for  y^ 
Space  of  two  yeares.  That  y^  sayd  Bland  might  have  time  to 
make  his  humble  supplications  to  his  most  sacred  Majestic  to 
Remitt  y^  same,  by  which  favourable  Clause  y^  Mercie  of  that 
Coiut  Apeares,  And  that  they  intended  by  itt  rather  to  deter 
him  from  the  like  Rash'  Actions  for  the  tyme  to  come,  then  to 
Ruin  him,  for  what  he  had  unadvisedly  committed. 

[Indorsed  in  pencil] 
"30  May  1676" 


Whitehall,  May  30,  1676 
Minutes  of  a  Committee  of  Trade  and  Plantations.     In  ref- 
erence to  the  Laws  of  Jamaica  and  the  Act  for  the  good  govern- 
ing of  Christian  Servants  their  lordships  are  not  pleased  with 


128  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

the  word  Servitude  being  a  mark  of  bondage  and  slavery  and 
think  fit  rather  to  use  the  word  Service  since  these  Servants 
are  only  Apprentices  for  years,  but  very  much  approve  of  this 
Regulation  for  governing  of  Servants  and  order  that  enquiry 
be  made  whether  this  or  the  like  law  be  in  force  in  all  other  his 
Maj'.  as  being  very  necessary  for  the  prevention  of  spiriting 
away  Children. 

Sara  Bland's  petition  in  behalf  of  her  son  Giles  referred  on  22 
April  the  Agents  of  Virginia  to  have  a  copy  of  said  Petition  and 
attend  on  Tuesday  next. 
(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  104.  pp.  124-5) 

[Abstract) 

Whitehall,  June  8,  1676 
Minutes  of  a  Committee  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  M"". 
Ludwell,  Secretary  of  Virginia,  shows  letter  from  that  Colony 
concerning  the  present  disturbances  there,  occasioned  both  by 
the  insurrections  of  the  neighbouring  Indians  and  by  a  mutiny 
of  several  Englishmen  (Mem.  he  sent  in  this  letter  on  the  lO*** 
current)  He  is  ordered  to  attend  on  Thiu-sday  with  the  other  per- 
sons concerned  in  the  petition  of  M"  Sara  Bland  in  behalf  of 
her  son  now  in  Vieginia. 
(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  104.  p.  133.) 

Answer  of  M'"  Ludwell  to  Bland's  Petition. 

To  the  Right  Ho'ble  the  Lords  of  the  Committee  for  Planta- 
tions. 

Tho.  Ludwell  Sec^*  of  Virginia 

Most  humbly  doth  present, 

That  having  seen  a  copie  of  a  Petition  presented  by  M''^. 
Sara  Bland  to  the  Kings  most  Excellent  Ma*y  &  a  reference 
thereupon  to  yom"  Lop=  &  upon  that  reference  Yoiir  ho^  Order 
for  a  hearing  on  the  6th  of  this  instant  Jtme  &  finding  himself 
more  particularly  concerned  as  being  bespattered  with  a  part  of 
that  dirt  which  is  thrown  upon  the  whole  government  of  Virginia 
by  the  said  Mris  Bland,  he  doth  most  humbly  beg  your 
honours  leave  &  patience  in  receiving  this  his  answer  to  the  said 
Petition. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  129 

To  the  first  part  he  answereth,  that  he  believeth  that  M''. 
John  Bland  did  adventtire  great  sums  of  money  into  that 
Cotmtry  but  is  confident  that  if  his  brothers  Edward  and  Theo- 
dores Books  could  be  produced  it  would  appear  that  not  a  fifth 
part  of  the  sum  mentioned  in  the  Petition  was  laid  out  in  Plan- 
tations or  other  estate  there  and  consequently  not  to  be  possest 
by  his  son  Giles. 

In  the  next  place  where  it  is  alleged  that  the  said  Giles 
applyed  himself  to  the  respondent,  it  is  utterly  imtrue  for  his 
application  was  to  the  Governor  &  Council  by  a  Petition,  for  a 
Confirmation  of  a  Deed,  passed  by  Edward  Bland  Jimior,  to 
the  above  said  M''  John  Bland  for  all  those  lands  taken  up  or 
purchased  by  his  father  Edward  brother  of  the  said  John  and 
consequently  vested  in  him  as  heir  to  his  father.  Upon  the  read- 
ing of  which  Petition  the  respondent  as  a  member  of  the  court 
told  the  said  Giles  Bland  that  there  was  a  Law  in  the  Country 
intitled,  An  Act  for  prevention  of  fraudulent  conveyances  which 
did  provide  that  no  conveyance  should  be  valid  in  Law  that 
was  not  acknowledged  in  Court  by  the  Conveyor  &  therefore 
he  must  bring  the  yoimg  man  into  the  Court  to  acknowledge 
his  deed  according  to  the  said  law.  And  this  was  that  w'''' 
gives  the  color  to  what  is  said  of  the  respondents  telling  the  said 
Giles  that  his  father  had  sent  in  forged  writings  to  cheat  the 
widow  with  whom  he  had  no  difference  whilst  the  respond* 
was  in  the  Country.  Nor  could  it  be  possible  that  the  respon- 
dent (who  hath  ever  had  a  very  good  opinion  of  M''  John  Bland) 
could  affirm  any  such  ill  thing  of  him.  Since  at  that  time,  nor 
even  to  this  day,  he  never  saw  one  paper  that  concerned  the 
said  widow  or  the  young  Edward.  For  what  is  said  of  Giles 
Bland  coming  to  the  Respond*"  house  and  being  heated  with 
Wine  &  brandy  It  is  confest  that  the  respondent  coming  home 
found  S""  Henry  Chicheley  &  the  said  Bland  there  who  unknown 
to  him  came  there  to  shelter  themselves  from  the  approaching 
night.  But  for  the  drink  mentioned  though  they  had  of  each 
yet  he  doth  affirm  that  it  was  not  in  any  quantity  which  might 
heat  either  party  nor  had  the  said  Bland  the  least  occasion 
given  him  of  offence  but  fell  upon  the  respond*  in  most  rude  & 
unsufferable  language  for  no   other  cause  but  reproving  him 


130  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

when  he  spoke  ill  of  the  Council.  And  this  the  respondant  can 
with  truth  affirm  &  if  it  should  be  inquired  into,  he  doubts  not 
but  it  would  appear  that  (with  all  who  know  him  he  hath  ever 
passed  under  a  better  character  than  that  of  being  a  Drunkard 
or  forcing  others  to  be  so.  But  the  Petitioner  takes  the  old  but 
ill  course  of  helping  a  bad  cause  with  ill  language. 

As  to  the  pretended  Challenge  as  the  Respond*  knew  better 
what  was  becoming  the  place  he  exercised  than  to  give  or  ac- 
cept a  challenge  from  any  man  so  he  doth  in  the  presence  of  God 
affirm  that  there  was  nothing  like  it  on  his  part  passed  between 
them.  But  the  said  Bland  going  the  next  morning  from  the 
respondents  house  before  he  was  risen  took  away  one  of  his 
Gloves  carrys  it  to  the  Gov""'  where  he  stayed  all  that  day  being 
Sunday  and  time  enough  to  allay  the  heat  of  the  wine  (if  he  had 
any  such)  and  that  night  carrys  it  to  the  town  &  there  fixes  it 
up  at  the  Assembly  door  with  the  words  under  it  mentioned  in 
the  order.  And  whereas  it  is  affirmed  in  the  Petition  that  the 
Burgesses  by  the  Contrivance  of  the  respondent  complained  of 
the  same,  he  doth  affirm  that  he  came  not  into  the  town  before 
the  Monday  following  nor  knew  anything  of  his  Glove  being  so 
unworthily  fixed  till  many  of  the  Burgesses  told  him  of  it  and 
exprest  their  resentment  of  the  affront  done  them.  And  he  doth 
likewise  affirm  in  the  presence  of  God  that  he  never  applyed  him- 
self either  to  the  Burgesses  or  to  the  Governor  and  Council  in  the 
case  till  it  was  so  public  that  the  said  Bland  was  ordered  to  answer 
&  the  respondent  to  complain  at  the  next  General  Court  where 
S""  Henry  Chicheley  (who  was  present  at  the  respondents  house 
when  he  received  the  affront)  was  one  of  the  Judges  that  con- 
demned him  in  what  the  Order  says  And  the  said  Bland,  asking 
the  respond*  forgiveness  in  Court  (though  so  proudly  as  the 
whole  Court  took  notice  of  it)  the  respond*  had  no  further 
difference  with  him.  But  for  his  affront  to  the  Assembly  he 
was  fined  five  hundred  pounds,  which  the  respondent  hopes 
will  not  appear  so  extraordinary  when  the  natiu-e  of  his  offence 
is  duly  considered  by  your  Honors. 

As  to  the  affirmation  that  the  respond*  drew  the  Order  him- 
self he  denies  it  but  withal  confesseth  that  as  his  Vindication 
from  so  great  an  affront  was  therein  to  be  left  upon  record,  he 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  131 

did  look  that  it  was  drawn  according  to  the  judgement  of  the 
court  &  so  did  the  Governor  since  it  was  an  extraord"  case. 
And  this  the  respondent  doth  confidently  affirm  that  there  is 
nothing  in  the  order  which  is  penal  but  what  was  so  adjudged 
by  the  Court. 

And  whereas,  it  is  affirmed  that  the  s"^  Bland  was  denyed  a 
trial  by  a  Jury,  it  is  a  great  scandal  to  the  Justice  of  that  Court 
who  never  denied  it  to  any  man  that  demanded  it  nor  would 
to  him  &  therefore  it  is  a  mighty  injury  to  the  Court  to  affirm 
that  they  proceeded  arbitrarily  violently  and  injuriously.  To 
which  charge  the  Respondent  doth  most  humbly  pray  that  the 
Court  may  have  time  to  answer.  And  if  it  shall  appear  that 
they  are  wronged  that  they  may  have  reparation  according  to 
the  nature  of  the  offence.  But  the  affront  done  the  respon- 
dent by  M''  Bland  is  no  extraordinary  matter  since  he  finds  M' 
Bland  hath  not  been  contented  with  so  small  a  matter  as  abus- 
ing the  Secretary  in  his  own  house  but  hath  since  affronted  the 
Governor  upon  the  Seat  of  Justice  in  open  Court  to  that  degree 
as  he  was  forced  to  descend  and  ask  Justice  from  the  Council 
and  being  punished  for  it  is  the  groimd  of  all  the  complaint  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  prayer  of  his  Mothers  Petition. 

Thus  may  it  please  your  honors  the  Respond*  hath  very  truly- 
stated  the  case  to  which  he  will  be  deposed  for  as  much  as  con- 
cerns himself  &  leaves  it  with  all  humility  to  your  Lop^  consid- 
eration what  security  will  be  left  to  any  Government  if  the 
Officers  shall  be  left  to  such  outrages  and  to  determine  therein 
as  shall  seem  most  agreeable  to  Your  Justice  and  Judgement 
Which  is  all  that  can  at  present  be  answered  to  the  said  peti- 
tion by 

Right  Hon'ble 

Your  Honours  most 
humble  servant 
Tho:  Ludwell 
teste  W.  Davis. 


132  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Several  other  Papers  presented  by  M""  Ludwell  are  read  viz*. 

Act  of  the  grand  At    a    grand    Assembly    holden    at 

Assembly  against  James  City  the  2P*  day  of  September 

Bland.  1674. 

The  Affront  offered  to  this  grand  Assembly  in  the  person  of 
M^  Secretary  by  Giles  Bland  during  this  session  is  highly  re- 
sented by  the  House  of  Burgesses. 

And  forasmuch  as  the  said  Bland  is  not  in  Town  &  the  Session 
near  upon  closing  before  he  can  be  sent  for  This  House  there- 
fore do  request  the  right  Honou'ble  the  Governor  to  issue  forth 
his  mandate  for  the  appearance  of  the  said  Giles  Bland  be- 
fore his  Honour  and  the  Council  of  State  at  the  next  General 
Court  in  order  to  a  Vindication  of  the  grand  Assembly. 

Cop.  vera  Test.  James  Minge.  CI.  Assem. 

At  a  General  Court  held  at  James  City  the  21'*  day  of  Nov- 
ember 1674. 

Present 

S"".  Wm.  Berkeley  Knight  Governor  &c  S'.  Hen:  Chicheley 
Knt.  L*.  Col.  Daniel  Parke  Col  Nath  Bacon,  Tho.  Ballard 
Esq^  Col.  Jas.  Bridger 

Order  of  the  Gov''  Whereas  Thomas  Ludwell  Secretary 

&  Gn'l  Court  for  of  State  of  this  Colony  of  Virginia  did 

fining  Bland.  at  the  last  Session  of  the  Grand  As- 

sembly complain  that  going  from  the 
Assembly  to  his  own  house  on  Saturday  3""*^  of  Ocf  and  finding 
there  S^  Hen ;  Chicheley  knight  &  M  ^Giles  Bland  was  by  the  said 
Bland  most  barbourously  &  contrary  to  the  Laws  of  Hospitality 
and  human  Society  abused  and  called  pittiful  fellow,  puppy, 
&  son  of  a  whore,  without  any  other  provocation  than  giving 
his  opinion  as  one  of  the  Council  upon  a  Petition  preferred  by 
the  said  Bland  two  or  three  days  before  to  the  Gov''  and  Council 
&  reproving  him  for  speaking  scandalously  of  the  Council.  And 
Whereas  the  said  Secretary  did  further  complain  that  the  said 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  133 

Bland  taking  one  of  his  Gloves  without  his  Knowledge  or  consent 
did  ignominiously  and  presumptuously  and  unworthily  nail  the 
same  up  at  the  State  House  door  with  a  most  false  and  scanda- 
lous libel  which  contained  these  words  that  the  owner  of  that 
Glove  was  a  son  of  a  whore  mechanic  fellow,  puppy  and  a  cow- 
ard. Which  barbarous  behavior  the  whole  Assembly  resent- 
ing as  a  public  afifront  as  well  because  the  said  Sec^  was  a 
public  Minister  as  for  that  the  said  Bland  had  dared  to  fix  his 
glove  &  the  aforesaid  libel  at  their  gates  on  a  Sunday  and  during 
their  Session  did  by  an  address  from  the  Burgesses  to  the  Gov- 
ernor &  Council  desire  that  the  said  Bland  might  be  compelled 
to  appear  at  the  next  General  Court  there  to  answer  the  com- 
plaint of  the  said  Sec^y  on  the  behalf  of  himself  &  the  said  As- 
sembly And  he  being  accordingly  ordered  to  appear  before  this 
Court  on  the  fifth  day  being  the  20*''  of  this  instant  November 
where  all  the  aforementioned  barbarous  &  insolent  behavior 
being  by  full  &  clear  evidence  proved  And  the  Said  Bland  hav- 
ing nothing  material  to  say  in  his  defence  but  rather  adding  to 
his  former  crimes  by  braving  the  Court  itself.  It  is  therefore 
Ordered  that  the  said  Bland  do  immediately  acknowledge  the 
horrid  Injuries  he  hath  done  the  Said  Secretary  &  ask  him  Pub- 
lic forgiveness  in  Court  for  the  same  which  he  did  but  in  so 
slight  and  scornful  a  manner  as  rather  shewed  a  further  con- 
tempt of  the  said  Secretary  and  the  whole  Court  than  a  sub- 
mission to  their  order,  that  he  gave  present  and  sufficient 
security  for  his  good  behavior  for  the  future,  And  that  he  pay 
to  the  public  as  a  Fine  for  his  contempt  of  its  Authority  Five 
Hundred  Pounds,  Sterling  and  forthwith  give  good  security  for 
the  payment  of  the  same  within  two  years  after  the  date  of  this 
Order. 

Which  is  to  be  paid  accordingly  unless  within  that  time  he 
can  get  the  said  Fine  remitted  by  an  Order  from  His  Ma'ty  & 
the  Lords  of  his  most  Hono'ble  Privy  Council. 

Vera  Copia. 

Wm.  Berkeley 


134  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Report  Touching  Bland 

Whereupon,  their  Lo'ps  after  long  debate  agree  to  report  unto 
His  Ma*'^  that  a  copy  of  Mris  Blands  Petition  be  transmitted 
to  the  Governor  &  Council  in  Virginia  that  they  may  return  their 
defence  in  writing  or  impower  somebody  to  answer  for  them 
for  which  they  may  be  allowed  six  months  time  but  that  no 
advantage  be  in  the  interim  taken  as  to  the  forfeiture  imposed 
on  M^  Bland. 

Mem'dum  On  the  27*^  July  following  the  Re:::/iX  was  pre- 
sented unto  the  Committee  but  their  Lo'ps  being  informed  that 
Mris  Bland  had  prepared  a  Petition  imto  his  Majesty  whereby 
she  desired  leave  to  retract  those  unadvised  &  offensive  expres- 
sions contained  in  her  former  Petition  they  think  fit  to  expect 
His  Ma*'^*  Ord'.  thereupon  before  the  said  report  be  presented 
in  Council. 

Whitehall  June  15,  1676 

Minutes  of  a  Committee  of  Trade  and  Plantations  in  refer- 
ence to  Sarah  Bland's  petition  and  Ludwell's  answer.  It  was 
urged  by  M".  Bland's  Counsel  that  the  Council  [of  Virginia] 
could  not  impose  fines  for  an  affront  done  to  another  Court  but 
that  his  trial  ought  to  have  been  by  a  jury,  but  their  Lordships 
conceived  that  the  Council  table  was  invested  with  many  au- 
thorities that  had  in  all  times  been  exercised  and  allov/ed  of :  and 
that  it  will  be  hard,  in  so  remote  a  place  as  Virginia,  to  support 
the  Govemm*  if  there  were  not  an  extraordinary  power  in  the 
Board  for  emergent  occasions.  Mr.  Ludwell  being  called  in, 
stated  that  he  had  no  authority  from  the  Governor  or  Coimcil 
in  writing  to  manage  this  cause  whereupon  a  Report  was  or- 
dered to  be  drawn  up  to  his  Majesty — see  next  entry. 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.,  104.  pp.  141-2.) 

Council  Chamber  June  15,  1676 

Report  of  Committee  for  Foreign  Plantations  on  petition  of 
Sarah  Bland  in  behalf  of  her  son  Giles  that  the  matter  has  been 
argued  before  them  by  Council  learned  on  both  sides  but  in- 


VIRGINIA  IN  1667-1676.  135 

asmuch  as  said  petition  reflects  upon  the  honor  of  the  Council 
of  Virginia  and  the  legality  of  their  proceedings  they  should 
have  opportunity  to  make  their  just  defence,  their  lordships 
propose  that  copy  of  said  petition  be  sent  to  Virginia  with  al- 
lowance of  six  months  for  their  answer. 
(Colonial  Papers.  1  p.) 

Whitehall  July  27,  1676 

Minutes  of  a  Committee  of  Trade  and  Plantations — On  re- 
port on  petition  of  Sarah  Bland  pursuant  to  his  Maj.  reference 
of  22<^  April  last,  but  being  informed  that  M"  Bland  had  pre- 
pared a  petition  to  his  Majesty  whereby  she  desires  leave  to 
retract  those  unadvised  and  offensive  expressions  contained  in 
her  former  petition  It  is  thought  fit  to  expect  his  Maj.  order 
thereon  before  said  Report  be  presented  in  Coimcil. 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  104.  p.  184.) 

(To  be  Continued) 


136  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


MINUTES  OF  THE  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT 
1622-1629.* 


From  the  Originals  in  the  Library  of  Congress. 


*A11  erasures  in  the  original  are  here  printed  in  italics. 


(continued) 


[71.]  [35.] 


A  note  of  Depts  dew  from  George 

Thorpe  (20)  late  of  Barkley  deceased  [or  Barkley  Hun- 
dred] 

To  M""  Abraham  Persy  marchant  as  by  one  bill  of  dept  ii 
reduced  by  him  in  Corte  dated  the  18th  of  July  1621  [030  of  To] 
and  payable  y®  first  of  december  next  foUowinge  appereth 

More  dew  to  M''  Abraham  Persey  marchant  as  by  one  ii 

bill  of  dept  bearing  date  the  28*^  of  July  1621  and  [205  of  Toba] 

payable  the  first  of  December  next  ensuinge  Appereth 

^"George  Thorpe,  the  head  of  the  Berkeley  Hundred  Colony ,  was  killed 
in  the  Massacre  of  1622.  The  plantation  was  largely  made  by  men  from 
Gloucestershire,  England.  For  Thorpe  and  Berkeley  Hundred,  see 
Brown's  Genesis,  II,  1031;  William  and  Mary  Quarterly  IX,  209,  210; 
Va.  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  XII,  170,  and  the  Smith  of  Nibley 
Papers  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  New  York  Public  Library.  For  the  house 
Mr.  Thorpe  built  for  Apecancanough  (referred  to  in  the  account)  see 
Campbell's  History  of  Virginia,  162. 


MINUTES  OP  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  137 

Thomas  Hans  of  y"  neck  of  land  demandeth 
by  specizalitie  P'duced  in  Courte  twenty  five 
pownd  lawfull  money  of  England 

M''  The''  demandeth  for  2  dewtie  boy" 
XV 'li  strer  at  18  penc  a  pownde 

To  M"-  Marmaduke  Reyner  175'li  of  Tobacco  by  bill  175 li 

under  ye  hands  of  Gyles  Carter  Cap't  Thorpes  sarvant 

To  Capt  Smith  30  bushell  of  Come 

To  Mr.  Edward  Blany  417  'li  of  Tobacco 

To  Capt.  Francis  West  seaven  barrells  of  Come 

To  Mr.  David  Sandys  for  ministers  dews  35 'li  Toba 

To  Robert  fisher  for  5  week  woorke 

about  Apochanken  his  howse  90 'li  of  Tobacc 
To  Sr  George  Yardley  300'li  Tobacc 

400 
To  Mr.  Buck  241  li. 


[pencU  72]  [ink  34] 

A  Courtt  held  the  27*'^  of  December  1624 
present  Sr  Francis  Wyatt  knighte  &  Capt  Fran[cis] 
West  Sr  George  Yardley  knight  George  Sandys 
Esq"-  Thretsr  Doctor  Pott,  Capt'  Smith, 
Cap*  Hamer. 

1.  The  First  and  the  fyft  Articles  demand  of  Capt 
Martin  Conceminge  Sr  George  Yardley,  is  refered 
vntill  the  Cominge  vpp  of  Ensigne  Savage 

2.  Yt  is  ordered  y* 

To  the  Seconde  Sr  George  shall  is  to  take  his  oathe 
to  the  later  pte  of  this  Answere  to  ye  second  demand 
wch  Sr  George  tooke  Accordingly 

3.  To  the  thirde  demande,  the  Courte  Conceaveth         not 
that  Mr  Luke  Boyse  Reed  the  Cattle  by  any  order  or  warr[ant] 
from  Sr  George  and  therefore  yt  he  is  not  lyable 

to  dameages  Conceminge  the  same 


138  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

To  thefowerth  yf  Sr  George  doth  take  his  oath 

y't  he  after  y'e  ships  Compeny  had  brought  together 

the  ships  goods  and  had  ended  other  ymployment  Con 

cerninge  the  same  yt  then  he  freely  dismist  them,  and 

then  ymployede  them  not  in  any  pticular  service  and 

business  of  his  owne,  yt  then  Sr  George  shall 

not  be  lyable  to  the  fowerth  demande  it  noe 

ways  apperinge  by  proofs  yH  either  Sr  George  knew 

they  were  of  the  ships  Compeny  hired  by  Capt 

Martin  oW  y't  Cap't  Martyn  ever  required  them  of  Sr 

as  is  p'rtended 
George,  nor  luhy  Sr  George  should  wrongfully  have 
taken  them  away,  and  made  no  benefit  thereby 

The  sixt  demand  is  referred  to  y^  generall  Assembly 
beinge  An  Act  of  a  general  Assembly  in  Sr  George 
Yardleys  tyme 

To  the  seaventh  it  is  ordered  y*  Cap*  Martyn  shall 
bring  in  his  prooff  of  such  thing  as  were  taken 
away  from  Cap*  Sanders  howse  by  Sr  George 
or  any  by  his  Apoyntment,  more  than  himselfe 
Conf  esseth  in  his  Answere 


[ink  folio  35]  [pencil  folio  73] 

To  the  eight,  ye  Defendant  Demande  Ensigne  Chaplen  (21) 
vppon  oath  doth  deny  yt  there  was  any  such  Agreem't 
as  that  he  should  receeve  any  such  two  Cattle 
of  Capt  Sanders  for  Satisfaction  of  Cap*  Martins 
Dept  or  that  Cap*  Sanders  made  any  such  trade 
to  him  nor  is  there  any  proffe  brought  to  y*  Contrary 
And  we  Conceave  the^  warrant  of  Sr  George  and  the 
Counsell  to  be  iust  and  lawfull 

^^In  the  Census  of  1624-5  the  "Muster"  of  Ensign  Isaac  Chaplaine  at 
Chaplaine's  Choice  (in  the  present  Prince  George  County),  included 
Isaac  Chaplaine  who  came  in  the  Starr  in  1610,  his  wife  Mary  who  came 
in  the  James  in  1622,  John  Chaplaine,  "his  kinsman",  aged  15  years, 
who  also  came  in  the  James  and  five  servants. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  139 

To  the  nynth  Demand  it  appereth  not  to  Concern 
Sir  George  but  y*  Liv*  Peppett  (22)  is  lyable  to  make  satis- 
faction 
to  whom  of  right  y*  said  peece  shall  belonge  vnto 

To  ye  fowerth  Sr  George  Yardley  having  taken  his  oath 
y*  he  knew  not  y*  said  Stallenges  men  were  y*  hired 
servante  of  Capt  John  martin  or  y*  ever  Cap* 
martin  to  his  vtmost  remembrance  did  ever  request 
them  of  him,  and  Capt  Martin  confessing  y*  he  doth 
not  p'cysly  remember  whether  ever  he  demanded  them 
of  Sr  George  or  not  y"  Court  Conceaveth  y*  Sr  George 
as  not  Lyable  to  geue  him  Satisfaction  for  y^  said 
pretended  servante,  Demanded  of  him. 

The  nyne  and  twentieth  Day  of  December  1624 
Symon  Tutchine  of  the  good  Shipp  Caled 
the  Dew  retoume  Did  take  the  oath  of  Allegiance 
before  y"  Gov'"nou'"  and  Coimsell. 


[ink  folio  36]  [pencil  folio  74] 

Capt'  Hamer  his  opynion  is  y*  A  warrant  be 
granted  vnt  to  Cap*  martin  to  receave  y^  Cattle 
w^  are  in  controversie  to  Comand  Luke  Boyse 
to  Deliuer  ye  Cattle  now  in  his  possession  (being  in 
Controversie  betweene  Cap*  Jo:  martin  and  Cap*  Jo 
Bargaue)  (Vnto  Cap*  John  martins  possession 

This  also  is  the  opynion  of  Doctor  Pott 
Capt'  Francis  weste  y"  of  the  same  opinion 


^  ^Gilbert  Peppett  was  living  at  Flowerdieu  Hundred  in  1623.  He  lived 
later  in  Warwick  County.  His  wife  Alice  came  to  the  Colony  in  1619. 
Gilbert  Peppett  was  a  member  of  the  popular  Convention  which  met  at 
Jamestown  in  1625. 


140  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

The  rest  of  the  Court  being  y«  maior  p*  Do 
think  it  fitt  to  give  A  warrant  to  alter 
the  possession  (the  Controversie  Depending) 
Between  Cap*  martin  and  Cap*  Bargraue 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  Cap*  west  take  an  Inventorie 

of  Capt  Crashw's  goods  praysed  by  two  stifficyent  honest  men 

and  the  Inventorie  so  taken  to  be  sent  up  to  James 

Cyttie  and  pubHshed  also  in  other  places,  to 

the  end  y*  who  will  give  most  may  have  them 

Provided  y*  yf  Cap*  west  will  give  asmuch  as 

any  other  (he  to  have  them)  ye  refusall  of  them 

Margery  mutch  swome  and  exa™  sayeth  y*  she  beinge 

at  George  menefries  house  said  to  same  that 

were  then  y*  she  thought  Mrs  Hamer  had  bottles 

to  sell 

It  is  ordered  y*  M''  chew  shall  pay  three  hundred 

waight  of  Tobacco  to  mr  Lamoyne,  and  giue 

the  rent  of  his  store,  and  Deliuer  him  six  hogs 

heads  of  Caske 

Whereas  it  Appeereth  by  Symon  Tutchin  his  oime 

Confessione,  And  by  one  wrightinge,  that  he  was 

banished  owt  of  Ireland.     The  said  Symo  Tuchin 

aleageth  y*  the  said  banishment  was  repealed  by  Sr 

Oliver  Set  Johns  then  Lo :  Deputie  of  Ireland,  w'=^ 

repeale  he  not  p'ducing  in  Courte,  because  he 


[ink  47]  [pencil  83.] 
John  Southeme  swome  and  Exa"  saith  y* 
there  was  an  absolute  Bargaine  between  Jo : 
lyghtfoote  and  W"  Byancks  According  to  a  pap' 
of  indentures  of  lease  bearing  date  the  eighteene 
dye  of  December  1624  w'^**  Indentures  were 
by  the  said  Ex 'a  produced  in  Courte  and  that 
there  was  noe  daye  appoynted  betwene  the  same  p'te 
for  the  sealinge  of  the  said  Indenture,  but  w*''  as 
much  convenient  speed  as  might  be  this  Exa™ 
woold  wright  them 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  141 

Capt'  Wm  Tucker  swome  and  exa"  sayeth  y*  when 
Sr  George  Yardley  Came  in  to  be  Gou''nor  y*  he 
told  the  Ancyent  Planters  at  Kickotan  y*  the 
land  they  dwelt  vpon  was  Chosen  to  be  the 
Compenys  lande,  and  that  the  Compeny  wold 
sent  to  Plant  it  but  how  soone  he  knew 
not  but  bid  them  look  fort,  Pro  And  that 
they  should  have  valuable  Considerations  for 
their  Charges  in  buildinge 

Randall  Smallwood  swome  and  Examd  sayeth  that 
M'  W™  Julian  (23)  said  he  had  deliuered  his  peticione 
to  the  Gou^^nor  in  the  mominge  that  he  hadd 
wayted  all  daye,  but  yf  he  could  nott  be  righted 
heere  he  wold  be  righted  in  England  and  that 
he  wold  waite  here  no  longer 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  Sargeant  Williams  shall  have  threescore 

in  full  recompenc 
and  term  pounde  of  tabacco  toward  his  Charge 
of  building  vpo*  the  Company s  land  at  Kackatan 
beinge  his  owne  demande,  and  the  Compeny 
desire  it  should  be  soe 


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And  whereas  Wm  Julyan  demandeth  five  hundred 
waight  of  Tobacco  damages  for  his  house  and 
grounde  Clered  y*  is  ordered  that  vpon  Monday 
the  24th  of  this  instant  moneth  he  produce  in 
Coiul;  his  prooffs  for  the  same  in  regard 
the  Court  Concleaves  it  an  vnreasonable  demand 

^ ^William  Julian  patented  600  acres  on  the  Eastern  Branch  of  Eliza- 
beth River  July  4,  1636.  He  was  a  Justice  of  Lower  Norfolk  1637.  In 
1646,  the  Governor  and  Council  released  him  from  all  his  offices  on  ac- 
count of  his  great  age.     His  wife  was  named  Sarah. 


142  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

Nathaniell  Causey  gent  swome  and  Exam*  sayeth  that  M" 
Palmer  Cominge  to  his  house  said  to  this  ,Exa't  and  his 
wiefe  y*  there  was  a  farefull  thinge  falen  to  Mrs  Jurden  (24) 
&  beinge  demanded  by  this  Exat  what  it  was,  shee  saide  yt 
Mrs  Jurden  being  vppon  her  bed,  she  sawe  two  hands,  theone 
hande  vppon  her  head  theother  hand  vppon  her  Childs  head 
and  hearde  A  voice  w*'''  Cried.  Judgment,  Judgment.     To  w'''' 
M'  Causey  said  it  may  be  that  it  was  A  dreame,  now  sayeth 

M" 
Pahner  she  was  as  broad  awake  as  I  am  now. 

Further  tliis  Ex'a  sayeth  y*  he  hath  seene  M''  Ferrer 
kisse  M"  Jordan  he  never  sawe  any  other 

vniittinge  or  Suspicyous  familiaritie  between  them 
M''  Ferrer  and  M"  Jurden,  but  sayeth  y*  hee  hath  [seen] 
M'  Ferrer  kisse  her. 

Wheras  M''  Grevill  Pooly  minister  hath  geven  foorth 

speech  that  M*"  Ferrer  and  Mrs  Jiu-den  Hved  Skandelously 
together,  beinge  in  Court  and  willed  to  P'duce  witness 
he  P'duceth  none,  but  M''  Causey,  but  sayeth  yt  he 
Conceveth  it  Skandelous  for  M''  Ferrer  to  break 
the  order  in  Courte,  wch  he  hath  done  by  beinge  in 
ordynary  dyett  in  M"  Jurdens  house  and  to  frequent 
her  Compeny  alone  without  some  body  else  to  be  in  place 
accordinge  to  the  order  of  Courte 

Yt  is  ordered  that  W"  Julyan  shall  have  one  hundred  pownd 
waight  of  Tobacco  towarde  in  full  recompense  Towarde  his 

buildinge  vppon  y®  Companys 
lande  at  Kackatan  beinge  his  owne  demande  and 
the  Compenys  desire  it  should  be  soe. 

^*Mrs.  Jordan  was  the  heroine  of  a  noted  case  of  pre-contract  or  breach 
of  promise.  Captain  Samuel  Jordan,  of  Jordan's  Journey,  died  late  in 
March  1623,  leaving  a  young  widow,  Cicely,  and  two  children.  Three 
or  four  days  afterwards  Rev.  Greville  Pooley,  the  minister  of  the  parish, 
consulted  Captain  Isaac  Madison,  a  prominent  man  who  was  a  neighbor, 
in  regard  to  a  match  with  Mrs.  Jordan.  At  first  Madison  was  unwilling 
to  move  in  the  matter;  but  finally  consented.     Mrs.  Jordan  told  the 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  143 

Captain  that  she  would  as  soon  marry  Mr.  Pooley  as  any  one  else;  but 
would  not  marry  so  soon.  As  Mr.  Brown  (First  Republic,  563)  says, 
"This  was  all  that  a  man  in  his  mind  ought  to  have  asked;"  but  Pooley 
was  impatient  and  went  to  see  her  himself.  He  reported  to  Captain 
Madison  that  Mrs.  Jordan  had  contracted  herself  to  him  and  desired 
Madison  to  go  with  him  and  be  a  witness  to  it.  Madison  did  go  and 
when  Mr.  Pooley  desired  a  dram,  Mrs.  Jordan  desired  her  servant  to 
fetch  it;  but  Pooley  said  he  would  have  it  of  her  fetching  or  not  at  all. 
Then  she  went  into  a  room,  Madison  and  Pooley  followed  her;  and  when 
Mr.  Pooley  was  come  to  her  he  told  her  he  should  contract  himself  unto 
her — and  spoke  these  words — "I  Grivell  Pooley  take  thee  Sysley,  to 
my  wedded  wife,  to  have  &  to  hold  till  death  us  do  part,  and  thereto  I 
plight  thee  my  troth."  Then  (holding  her  by  the  hand)  he  spoke  these 
words,  "I,  Sysley  take  thee  Grivell  to  my  wedded  husband,  to  have  and 
to  hold  'till  death  do  us  part."  But  Madison  says  he  did  not  hear  her 
say  these  words  nor  Pooley  ask  her  if  she  would  consent  to  them.  Then 
Mr.  Pooley  and  Mrs.  Jordan  drank  to  each  other  and  he  kissed  her  and 
said  "I  am  thine  and  thou  art  mine  'till  death  us  separate."  Mrs.  Jor- 
dan desired  that  it  might  not  be  known  that  she  had  bestowed  her  love 
so  soon  after  her  husband's  death;  but,  though  Pooley  promised,  he 
was  too  elated  to  keep  the  secret.  Mrs.  Jordan  resented  this,  saying 
"He  would  have  fared  better  if  he  had  talked  less,"  and  immediately 
engaged  herself  to  marry  William  Ferrar,  another  suitor.  Mr.  Pooley 
then  brought  the  matter  before  the  Governor  and  council  and  on  June  14, 
sued  her  for  breach  of  promise.  The  case  was  continied  to  Nov.  27, 
when,  an  account  of  the  difficulty  of  deciding  the  question  of  contract 
the  matter  was  referred  to  the  Company  in  England  with  a  request  that 
the  opinion  of  civil  lawyers  be  obtained.  The  Governor  and  Council 
also  issued  a  proclamation  against  women  engaging  themselves  to  "two 
several  men  at  one  time."  The  text  of  this  proclamation  is  given  in 
Brown's  First  Republic  pp.  564,  565.  The  context  would  imply  that 
it  was  issued  in  November;  but  an  entry  printed  in  this  Magazine, 
XIX,  231,  shows  that  it  was  on  June  22d. 

Before  any  opinoin  could  be  obtained  from  England  Mr.  Pooley  lost 
his  case,  not  being  able  to  prove  his  charges  against  William  Ferrar, 
and  soon  made  a  formal  renunciation  of  any  claim  he  might  have  to 
Cicely  Jordan.  It  is  presumed  that  she  married  William  Ferrar,  or 
Farrar  (who  was  long  a  member  of  the  Council)  as  he  had  a  grand- 
daughter named  Cicely. 


144  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

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The  Gou'nor  in  Councell  Doe  Respitt  the  Determininative  of 
the  business  between  M'  Pooly  and  M"  Jurden  till  y*  first 
arrivall  of  shippe  out  of  England,  Wherein  we  expect 
A  resolution,  and  that  in  the  meanetime  thing  to  remane 
in  the  state  that  they  are,  and  y*  M''  Ferrer  behavinge 
himselfe  wthowet  Skandall  in  the  mean  tyme,  and  y^ 
Courte  do  Conceave  y*  his  beinge  in  ordinary  Dyett  there, 
nor  any  familiaritie  w'^''  hath  been  alledged,  noe  iuste 
Cause  of  skandall,  and  y*  in  y^  lesse  materiall  poynte  y* 
on  fuste  made  might  may  be  dispenct  w*^all. 

[A  paragraph  is  written  here  what  gives  more  evidence  in 
regard  to  the  case  of  the  master  of  a  vessel  referred  to  on  (p. 
61)  as  not  fit  for  publication.] 

[reverse  is  ink  folio  59] 


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Sargent  Holland  swome  and  Examin'  sayeth  that  there 
planted  at  sherley  hundred  for  Barkley  hundred  Company 
these  men  as  followeth 

Sergeant  Gabriel!  Holland      Charles  Partrige  Bvdlman 

Richarde  Firmely  Mr.  Hamden  Nicholas 

William  Clement  Theophilus  Beastone    Pierse 

Richarde  Sheriife  Thomas  Peck  croser 

Thomas  Moultone  William  Gilhnan 

Edward  Purquite  Pristman 
John  Tayler 

For  whom  Dewties  were  to  be  paide  by  Capt'  Thorpe 
to  M'  Sandys  ninisterw''^  whether  they  were  paid 
or  nott  this  Examt'  knoweth  nott. 


MINUTES  OF  COUN.CIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  145 

A  Copie  of  M'  Grevell  Pooly  this  release 
Conceminge  M"*  Sysely  Jiirden 

I  Gravell  Pooly  Preacher  of  the  woorde  doe  for  my  parte 
Freely  and  absolutely  acquitt  and  discharge  Mrs  Cycelie 
Jurden  from  aU  former  Contracts  P'mises  or  Conditiones 
made  by  her  to  me  in  the  vow  of  maryage  and  Doe 
binde  my  selfe  in  five  hundred  pownde  ster  never 
to  have  any  Claim  Right  or  title  to  her  that  way  In 
proof  thereof  I  have  hereunto  sett  my  hand  &  seal 
the  thurde  dye  of  January 

Subscribed  sealed  and  del' 

in  the  presence  of  Grevell  Pooly  Cler' 

Nathaniell  Causery 

Richard  Biggs  sealed 

R.  B. 
his  marke. 


[29] 

The  Coroners  Enquest  Impaneled  vppon 
the  death  of  George  Pope  An  Infant  Child 
December  y^  xxxj***  1624. 


William  Horwood,  gent 
Richarde  Stephene,  merc't 
John  Chew,  merchant 
Rober  Chambly  gent 
Peter  Stafferton  gent 
Nathaniell  Jeffereys 
James  Hickmonte 
Peregrine  wetkins 


Richard  Tree 
Thomas  Passmoure 
Daniel  Lucye 
Christopher  Stokes 
Wallgrave  Marke 
Nicholas  Fynloe 
William  Mutch 
Robert  Poole 


146  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

John  Southeme  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  y*  one  Thursday 
the  XXX *^  day  of  this  instant  moneth  of  December  Cominge  to 
John  Osboume  his  howse,  goodwife  osbotime  was  Calinge 
her  pultrye,  at  w*'^  tyme  A  younge  boy  named  william  Stokes 
ye  sone  of  Christopher  Stokes  cam  to  Jo :  Osbonmes  Doore 
havinge  A  Uttle  barrell  in  his  hande,  To  whom  goodwife 
saide  (Will,  wher  is  George,  the  said  boy  answered  his 
is  fallen  into  the  well,  whervpon  goodwife  Osboiime  did 
run  to  the  well  and  brought  George  Pope  in  her  Armes  de[ad] 

Margrett  Osboume  swome  and  examined  sayeth 

of  December  aboute  the  howers  of  three  or  foure  of  y^  Clock 

in  y*  after  noime  asked  this  Ez'ant  whether  ther  wer  any 

water  in  the  howse,  saying  he  was  very  drye,  to  whom 

she  saide  noe,  wher  vpon  he  said  he  wold  some,  then 

this  Ezamt  willed  him  to  talce  A  dish  w*''  him,  to  w"'' 

he  answered  noe  he  would  full  the  rundlet,  beinge  A 

small  Rundlett  of  A  gallon  o""  ther  about,  and  soe  hee 

tQoke  y^  mndlett  and  went  to  the  well,  after  w"*"  w*^in 

lesse  then  A  quarter  of  an  hower.  Will  stokes  came 

towardes  the  howse  w*^  the  same  rundlett,  to  whom  this  Exant 

asked  where  is  George,  y^  said  will  replide  he  is 

in  the  well,  wherevpon  she  run  to  the  well  and  found 

George  pope,  his  body  all  vnder  water  except  his 

left  arme  by  w'^''  she  drew  him  out  and  Caried  him 

into  the  howse  Dead,  And  further  sayeth  y*  y^  father  of 

the  said  George,  named  also  George  pope,  brought  him 

over  w*^  him  in  the  london  marchant,  beinge  aboute  [two?] 

yeeres  and  a  half  past  y^  child  being  then  as  his  parent 

said  aboute  two  yeeres  olde,  and  his  father  and  mother 

both  livinge  in  y*  Corporation  of  James  Cyttie  w*''  other  children 


And  further  sayeth  y*  she  hath  often  sent  the  said 
George  Pope  to  the  well  to  bringe  water  in  the 
said  nmdlett,  but  never  before  without  a  Dishe 
to  fill  y"  rundlett  w*'^ 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  147 

William  Stokes  about  five  yeers  old 

Christopher  Stokes  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  that 

when  his  sonne  will  Stokes  his  sonne  beinge  about 

five  yeers  old  cam  home,  he  aske^  him  how  George 

pope  Cam  into  the  well,  the  said  w™  stokes  his  sone 

said  he  kneled  Downe  on  his  knees  to  dip  vp  water 

and  soe  fell,  and  the  water  beinge  muddy  y«  said 

George  went  to  power  it  owt  and  to  take  vpp 

Cleerer  and  soe  fell  in,  and  then  will  stokes  went 

&  tooke  vpp  the  Rundlett  one  the  other  side  the  well  ,  and 

bringest  it  to  goodwife  osboume 

The  charge  as  Geven  to  y**  Jury 

You  shall  trewly  vppon  your  oathes  delue''  unto  this 
Courte  w*  you  shall  finde  vppon  the  Dilligent 
vew  of  the  body  of  the  said  George  pope  Deceased 
as  also  vppon  the  Examination  of  witnesses  and  all 
other  circvmistances  w'^'*  may  geve  light  to  the  truth 
wether  y^  said  George  pope  Cam  to  his  end  by  y" 
felonious  Acte  of  Any  psone  or  psons  or  by  the 
Visitation  of  God  or  misadventure) 


[pencil  folio  69.]  [ink  folio  31.] 

A  Court  held  the  thirde  of  January  1624  present 
Sr  Francis  Wyatt  Kjiight  &c  Sr  George  Yardley 
Knight  Doctor  Pott  Capt*  Smith  Cap*  Hamer 

Thomas  Farley  swome  and  examined  sayeth  that  he  was  in  place 
when  Livt  Georg  Harisone  and  Rowland  loftis  did  Recken,  at 
w***  tyme  this  exa™  sayeth  that  Rowland  loftis  was  indepted 
to  Livt'  Harisone,  but  how  much  he  knoweth  not,  but  as  he 
tliinketh,  loftis  was  indepted  to  Livt*  Harisone  twenty  pownd 
waight  of  Tobacco  or  therabout,  And  further  sayeth  that 


148  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

me  cyone  was  made  then  A  dept  dewe  to  Christopher 
best,  but  w'=''  of  them  was  to  pay  it  he  canot  say,  &  sayeth 
that  ther  was  An  Acquitance  written  betwixt  them  by  Nich- 
olas 
Greenhill  and  entered  into  A  booke 

John  Searbrooke  sworne  and  Examined  sayeth 

M^  Threasurer  brought  over  into  this  Cotmtry  3,t  his  Cost 

and  Charge 
in  the  good  shipp  called  the  George,  Thomas  Daunsey  ye 

father 
and  John  Daunsey  his  sonne,  John  Mott  the  father  and  John 

Mott 
the  Sonne,  and  John  Hoskins  And  the  landes  dew  for  them 
M'  Thresurer  Doth  make  over  to  Mr.  John  Baynam 

Richard  Kingsmell  gent  and  Thomas  Allnut  swome  and  Exam- 
ined 
sayeth  y*  the  last  vnll  P'duced  in  Courte  by  Jo :  Radishe 
was  the  trew  will  and  testament  of  Peter  Mar  [t?]en  and  that 

M""  Kingsmell  did  wrighte  the  will  himself e. 

Nicholas  Grenhill  swome  and  examined  sayeth  that  he  writt 
the  said  Acquittance  betwixt  Livt  Harrisone  &  Rowlande 

lofti[s] 
and  that  it  was  for  all  Reckninge  betwixt  them 

Yt  is  ordered  y'  Beniamine  symes  shall  pay  all  the  dept  &  be 
geven  by  will  by  y^  deceased  Nathaniell  Hawkswoorth  and 
to  pay  to  Mr.  Francis  bolton  one  of  y^  legasses  [legacies]  two 

hiindr 
pownd  waight  Tobacco. 


[70.]  [32.] 


Mr.  Abram  Persy  Cape  m'chant  afirmith  y*  he  paid  to  Sr  Georg 
Yardley  and  Mr.  John  Powntis  for  the  freedomes  of  Nicholes 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT  149 

Bayly  and  Jonas  Ryally  five  hundred  pownd  waight  of  to- 
bacco 
and  twleve  barrells  of  sheald  Come,  and  y*  by  his  booke 
there  is  dew  to  him  seventy  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco  and 
by  bill  bearinge  date  the  6th  of  february  1621  one 
hundred  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco 

It  is  ordered  y*  Nicholes  Baylie  and  Jonas  Riley  shall 
pay  to  Mr.  Abram  Persy  either  396  pownd  of  tobacco 
and  twelve  barrells  of  sheald  Come,  or  thewyse 
to  sawe  him  tenn  thowsand  foote  of  boorde  at 

Yt  is  ordered  y''  W™  Newman  and  John  Army  for  their 

Contempt  in  disobeying  Cap*  Bass  his  Commissio'  granted 
him  by  the  Gou'  nor  shall  pay  each  of  them  10  pownd 
ster  in  the  best  marchantable  Tobacco  and  y*  Army 
for  his  absenc  in  not  Cominge  to  Churge  shall  pay 
his  fyne  accordinge  to  the  act  of  y^ 

generall  Assembly 

Yt  is  agreede  in  Courte  betweene  Mr.  John  Vtie  and  Bryan 
Caught  That  y^  said  Bryan  shall  build  M''  Vtie  one  shallop 
of  eighteene  foote  and  a  halfe  by  the  keele  in  lenth  and 
six  foote  and  a  halfe  for  the  breadth  w*''  mast  oars 
yarde  and  Rudder,  and  Bryan  to  finde  eleven  hundred 
of  snayles  and  six  score  Ruff  and  Clench,  And  M' 
Vtie  to  pay  Bryan  for  the  building  of  ye  shallop  six 
score  pownd  waight  of  marchantable  Tobacco  and  to  alow 
him  the  helpe  of  a  boye  whilst  he  is  about  the  building 
of  that  shallop  and  to  find  him  dyett  And  Also  M"" 
Vty  is  to  pay  Bryan  sixscore  pownd  waight  of  Tobacco 
for  A  boatt  formerly  builte  mentioned  [sic]  in  the  Peticione 

Ensigne  John  Vtie  swome  and  Ex'a  sayeth  That  he  harde 
Mr.  John  Lamoyne  vsed  these  speeches  to  him  [altered  from 

this.]  exat'  That 
Mr.  Edward  Tutcliin  and  Symon  Tutchinge  his  Brother 
had  some  two  or  three  thousand  waight  of  Tobacco  to  recev 
heere  between  them,  And  that  Symon  Tutchin  had 
gotten  his  brother's  booke,  but  y*  I  will  looke  to  that 


150  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

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Symon  Tutchine  swome  and  Exnd  sayeth  y*  w"  G[yles?] 
promised  to  giue  this  Examt  full  Satisfaction  before  his 
Depture  owt  of  Virginia  for  the  sume  of  ten  pou[nd] 
sixteen  shilings  redy  money,  for  wch  the  said  Wm  G[yles?] 
gave  vnto  Edmund  Tutchen  A  bill  of  exchang  to  y^ 
Virginia  Company  in  England,  w'=*'  Company  could  not  pay 
the  said  bill,  but  y^  bill  was  P'tested.     This  exant 
further  sayeth  y*  Mr.  Peter  Eps  P'mised  him  Payment 
for  seaven  poimd  of  Tobacco  Dew  to  Edmd  Tutchin  and 
Michell  Willocke  P'mised  payment  of  six  potmd  of  T[obacco] 

dew  to  Edmund  Tutchin 

This  Exant'  hat  Reed  Depte  Dew  to  Edmd  Tutchen 
of  the  p'vost  marshall  twentie  six  pound  of  Tobacco 
of  w™  Cooke  three  pound  And  of  Robert  Cesner 
fifteen  poxmd,  All  w''^  Amotmted  to  forty  fower 
poimde  of  Tobacco. 

These  Deptc  Receaved  and  to  be  receaved,  are  to 
be  Deliu'ed  and  left  to  be  receaved  by  Cap*  Hamer 
In  parte  Satisfactio  of  Certen  Covenant  to  be 
p'formed  by  Edward  Tutchine  to  Walter  Davis 
Deceased  for  the  vse  of  John  Davis 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  s''  George  Yardley  shall  pay  M""" 
Alice  Davisone  (26)  term  pound  of  Tobacco  for  y" 
Dept  of  Cap*  Thorpe 

Bryan  Caught  swome  and  axamd  sayeth  that  he  had 
m'  John  Gill  and  James  Calver  told  this  Exa° 
that  they  gave  Toby  A  bill  to  receave 

one  hundred  pound  waight  of  Tobacco  of  Cap* 
Hamer 

^  "Alice  Davison,  widow,  was  living  at  Jamestown  1624-5.  As  Edward 
Sharpless,  Secretary  of  the  Colony,  lived  in  her  house,  it  is  probable 
that  she  was  the  widow  of  William  Davison,  late  Secretary. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  151 

George  Payer  swome  and  exand  by  Cap*  Smith  sayeth  that 
W*°  Heninge,  vpon  his  Death  bedd  did  giue  and  bequeath  one 

hundred 
waight  of  Tobacco  and  three  barrells  of  sheald  Come  to  Stephen 
Webb  w'=''  Tobacco  and  Come  was  Dew  from  Thomas  Farley  by 
A  bond  remayning  in  the  Govemo"  hands 

Addam  Dixsone  swome  and  Examined  by  Cap*  Smith  sayeth 
and  affirmeth  as  much 


[28]  [66] 


Edwarde  Pithchande  swome  and  Ex 'an  sayeth  that  John  Cooke 
Cam  abord  the  Kttell  hopdeell  at  w''^  tyme  Peter  Langman  was 
there,  and  whereas  Peter  Langma'  was  adopted  by  John  Cooke  ye 
said  Cooke  told  Peter  Langman  y*  he  would  not  Suffer  him  to  go 
vpp  before  he  had  paid  him  or  putt  him  in  securitie.  whervpon 
Henry  Watkins  becam  bound  w*^  Peter  langma'  for  the  Dept 
beinge  one  hundred  fortie  and  fower  pound  waight  of  Tobacco 
w***  condicon  y*  yi  Peter  Langman  Did  not  pay  the  Dept  within 
Certen  days  (w'=**  this  Exa  doth  not  well  remember)  that  then 
Peter  langman  shold  searve  Henry  Watkins  the  next  yeare 


A  Court  held  the  tenth  of  January  1624 

present  Sr  Francis  Wyatt  Knight  &c  Capt  Francis 

West 
Sr  George  Yardley  mr  Threasurer  Doctor  Pott 

Cap*  Hamer 
Yt  is  ordered  that  Susan  Bush  wyddow  shall  have  y^  Gardianship 

and  Administration of  Sarah  Spence  orphant  her  lands  & 

goods 
puttinge  in  Capt  Raph  Hamer  and  Cap*'  W°*  Tucker  to 
stand  bond  for  the  trew  Administration  thereof  And 
to  be  trewly  Accomptable  for  the  orphantc  estate  w**>  the 
yssues  and  Pfittc  that  shall  arise  thereof  from  tyme 
to  tyme 


152  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

Cap*  west  doth  heere  in  Court  vndertake  to  pay  the  Deptc 
of  Capt  Crashaw,  he  Disposinge  of  his  goods  to  the  best 
advantage,  and  that  vpon  mondye  bdnge  the  seventh 
of  february  he  shall  bringe  into  ye  Court  the  accompting 
and  y*  in  the  meane  tyme  notice  be  geven  that  y^  Creditors 
of  Cap*'  Crashaw  bringe  in  ther  Dept  between  this 
and  that  Tyme,  and  such  as  are  questionable  be- 
brought  into  the  Courte 

Sargeant  William  Barry  brought  over  into  this 
Countrey  at  his  owne  Ph  Coste  and  Charges  one 
man  Sarvant  named  James  Coyne  in  the  good  shipp 
Caled  the  mary  P'vidence,  w=^  said  servant  is  since 
Dead. 


[end  of  FIRST  BOOK  OF 
ORIGINAL  record] 


VIRGINIA    GLEANINGS   IN   ENGLAND.  153 


VIRGINIA  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 


Commtinicated  by  Mr.  Lothrop  Withington,  30  Little  Russell 
Street,  W.  C.  London,  (including  "Gleanings"  by  Mr.  H.  F. 
Waters,  not  before  printed.). 


Dame  Elizabeth  Filmer  widow,  late  the  wife  of  Sir  Edward 
Filmer  of  East  Sutton,  county  Kent.  Knight.  Will  23  March 
1635;  proved  16  August  1638.  Body  to  Church  of  East  Sutton 
aforesaid  beside  the  body  of  my  late  husband.  To  poor  of 
Maidstone  in  Kent  if  I  am  dwelling  there  at  my  death  40s.  To 
poor  of  East  Sutton  £5.  To  dame  Anne  Filmer  wife  to  my  son 
Sir  Robert  Filmer  my  jewel  with  diamonds  and  pearls.  To 
Elizabeth  Filmer  their  daughter  and  Sara  Filmer  my  daughter 
my  four  ropes  of  pearls  containing  600  in  number  equally  be- 
tween them.  To  Edward  Filmer  eldest  son  of  my  said  son  Sir 
Robert  a  Portugues  piece  of  gold  and  a  piece  of  gold  of  King 
Henry  VII  coinage  both  which  were  his  great  grandfathers.  To 
the  two  younger  sons  of  my  son  Robert  viz ;  Robert  and  Samuel 
40s.  apiece.  To  Anne  youngest  daughter  of  said  Sir  Robert  40s. 
To  my  daughter  Mary  Knatchbiill  widow  my  boder  of  gold  and 
pearl  and  £10.  To  her  daughter  Marie  the  wife  of  John  Vnder- 
wood,  gent,  my  agate  and  pearl  jewel.  To  her  two  sons  Ed- 
ward and  John  Knatchbtdl  40s.  each.  To  my  daughter  Kath- 
erine  Barham  £10.  To  her  eldest  daughter  Elizabeth  Barham 
£300  at  21  years  or  marriage.  If  she  die  before  then  said  £300 
to  Elizabeth  and  Anne  Filmer  daughter  of  my  son  Reginald 
Filmer.  To  Susan  and  Ann  Barham  two  younger  daughters 
of  my  said  daughter  Katherine  40s.  apiece.  To  my  daughter 
Elizabeth  Falconer  £10.  Moreover  to  my  aforesaid  daughter 
Sarah  Filmer    £10.     To  my  son    in  law  Robert  Barham  my 


154  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

biggest  ring.  To  his  son  Thomas  £10  at  24,  and  to  each  of  his 
other  sons  Edward,  Robert,  Charles,  Richard  and  John  40s. 
To  his  daughters  Susan  and  Ann  Barham  40s.  each.  To  my 
daughter  in  law  Jane  wife  to  my  son  Reginald  £10.  To  her 
daughters  Elizabeth  and  Ann  Filmer  each  40s.  To  my  said  son 
Sir  Robert  Filmer  my  silver  warming  pans.  To  my  son  John 
£10.  To  my  son  Henry  £10.  To  my  son  Reignold  Filmer 
my  lease  of  three  tenements  in  Knightrider  Street,  London. 
To  my  son  in  law  William  Falconer  Draper  40s.  To  my  brother 
John  Argoll  esq  a  gold  ring.  To  my  sister  Dame  Jane  Fleet- 
wood a  piece  of  Queen  Elizabeths'  coyne.  To  my  sister  Dame 
Sarah  Jenkinson  a  like  piece  of  gold  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  coyne.  - 
To  Elizabeth  Pierson  widow  40s.  To  each  of  my  manservants 
10s.  To  Elizabeth  Fryde  my  apprentice  40s.  To  my  every  other 
maid  servants  10s.  Residue  of  my  goods  to  my  son  Edward 
Filmer  sole  executor.  Published  August  2,  1638.  Wa:  Reto- 
rick,  Scrivener.  Dame  Elizabeth  Filmer  willeth  that  her 
three  houses  in  Knighrider  Street  (now  that  her  son  Reginald 
Filmer  is  deceased)  shall  be  disposed  as  follows;  £30  of  the 
first  years  rent  to  Jane  late  the  wife  of  said  Reginold  and  after 
decease  of  testatrix  to  the  use  of  her  executor  he  paying  yearly 
to  Elizabeth  Faulkner  daughter  of  Dame  Elizabeth  Filmer  and 
wife  of  Wniiam  Faulkner  £10.  Whereas  said  Dame  Elizabeth 
had  bequeathed  to  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Robert  Barham  gentle- 
man a  competent  porcion  her  will  is  that  £50  of  the  said  legacy 
in  case  said  Elizabeth  Barham  depart  this  life  before  attaining 
18  years  shall  be  equally  divided  between  the  two  daughters  of 
said  Reginald  And  lastly  said  Dame  Elizabeth  Filmer  willeth 
to  Susan  Barham  £50  apeece  (sic).  Memorandum  the  legacy 
of  £50  apiece  to  Susan  and  Anne  Barham  were  enterlyned  be- 
fore the  signing  hereof.  Witnesses;  R.  Batchurst,  Frances  Bat- 
churst,  Edwd  Batchurct,  Wm.  Wiseman,  Thomas  Walter. 
Lee,  95. 

[The  will  of  Samuel  Filmer,  the  grandson,  named  in  the  will,  was 
printed  in  this  Magazine  XV,  181.  He  was  the  first  husband  of  Mary 
Horsmanden,  who  afterwards  married  William  Byrd  of  "Westover,"  Vir- 
ginia. The  son,  Henry  Filmer,  named  in  the  will,  came  to  Virginia 
about  1637.     See  this  Magazine  XV,  181,  182.] 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  155 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS. 


For  the  Main  Army  under  Washington  1778-1779. 


(From  the  Originals  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Histori- 
cal Society.) 


CONTINUED. 


S.  C.       P. 

For  picquet 1 

For  in  G^ 1 

For  Q'r  Gd 1 

D.  O.  Kakiate,  Monday  Oct'r  18th,  79. 

F.  O.  Major  Mitchel. 

For  Police  Capt'n  Long. 

For  the  Day  Adj't  Robertson. 

S.        C.        P. 

For  Picquet „ 1         1 

For  In  Guard 1 

For  Q'r  Guard 1 


D.  O.  Kakiate,  Oct'r  19th,  79. 
F.  O.  Major  Stevenson. 

For  Police  Capt'°.  Lamb. 

For  the  Day  Adj'*.  Bowen. 


156 


VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 


The  Supply s  from  the  State  of  Virg'a  are  to  be  Served  out  by 
the  Assistant  who  has  the  Care  of  them  in  the  follow'g  propor- 
tion P  month  agreeable  the  Order  of  the  Virginia  Board  of  war 
and  the  prices  Set  Oposite  to  Each  article  to  be  paid  by  the 
Drawers. 


Rum 

Chocolate 

L  Sugar 

B. 

D'o 

Tea 

CoP  53^  G-  a 

10  2  lb  at  3 

3  lb  at  2,8  6  lb  at  1, 

^a26 

L*  Col«  41^  " 

2  — 

3  — 

6  — 

Vi 

Majors  3^  ^ 

2  — 

3  — 

6  — 

Yi 

Capt«  2^  - 

1  — 

0  — 

6  — 

M 

Su'b  1  1-3— 

1  — 

0  — 

6  — 

M 

Chap  1  1-3 

1 

— 

6 

M 

Surg"  3M 

2 

3 

6 

¥1 

Mate  IM 

1 

0 

6 

M 

Non  Commission  officers  &  privates  1  Gill  Rum  P  Day,  No 
officer  or  Soldier  to  be  Drawn  for  but  those  present  on  the 
Ground  And  Every  Officer  is  Drawn  by  their  Rank  he  now  hold  in 
the  line  and  not  by  that  he  may  be  Intitled  to,  untill  he  Re- 
ceives a  Commission  or  appointment.  Nor  is  he  to  Draw  any 
thing  in  addition  to  his  Staff  appointm*. 

All  Waggon  masters  Q  M^  &  Commissi  as  well  as  every  other 
Staff  Officer  Except  those  mentioned  above  are  to  be  Totally 
Excluded,  unless  the  belong  to  the  Line — No  woman  or  any 
other  follower  of  the  Camp  to  be  Drawn  for  on  any  pretence 
whatever. 

The  Store  keeper  is  to  make  an  Entry  of  the  quantity  of 
Stores  he  Deliver  to  Each  Officer  and  to  Receive  the  money 
upon  the  Deliverry  the  Captain  or  officer  Commanding  Each 
Com^  to  Receive  the  money  from  his  men  and  make  the  Return 
for  Drawing  the  Gill  of  Rum  to  be  Countersign  by  the  Col'o  or 
Commandant  of  the  Regm*  upon  which  the  Store  keeper  is  to 
Issue  the  quantity  &  Receive  the  Money  of  the  Captain  or  Com- 
mand*— 

The  Serj*  Q.  M.  Serj*  Drum  &  Fife  Major  to  be  Drawn  for 
in  the  Col'o  or  first  Com''  in  the  Reg' 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  157 

The  officers  are  to  Draw  a  month  allowance,  if  the  have  not 
Vessels  to  hold  that  quantity  of  spirits  They  are  to  provide 
them  as  soon  as  possible.  The  Col'o  or  Command'g  officer  of 
Regm*'  will  furnish  the  Storekeeper  with  a  List  of  the  names  & 
Ranks  of  Each  officer  present  by  which  he  is  to  be  Governed 
And  when  officers  who  may  now  be  absent,  Return,  he  will 
Certifie  their  names  and  Rank  also. 

As  the  Acts  of  Assembly  of  Virg'a  as  well  as  the  Instructions 
from  the  Board  of  war  are  Indefective  with  Respect  to  the  Ar- 
tillary  Baylors  Dragoons  and  the  Regm*  Commanded  by  Col'o 
Gist,  The  Store  keeper  is  to  Deliver  to  the  officers  of  those  Reg*» 
who  are  Citizens  of  that  State  1  months  allowance  of  the  arti- 
cles, now  on  hand  And  the  Non  Commissioned  &  privates  to 
Draw  in  the  Same  proportion  as  those  in  the  Line.  In  the  mean 
time  application  will  be  made  to  the  board  of  war,  for  their 
further  Instructions. 

There  having  been  a  fair  ballot  made  for  the  president  and 
Drawing  those  Stores,  The  following  order  is  to  be  Observed.  (1) 

Baylors  Dragoons  7^^  Reg*  Col'o  Gists  Regm* 


2^  Stat 

5th  &  11th  Regm* 

Artillary 
gth  Regt 

8*^  Reg* 


1«*  State 
let  &  iQth  Regm* 
3d  &  4th  D'o 
and  2<*  Regm* 


Col'=  Phebecca  will  Draw  for  those  in  Vrig'a  Line  that  are  in 
the  Corps  of  light  Infantry  the  D  A  Gen'l  will  Send  a  Coppy  of 
this  Order  to  Col'o  Harrison  the  Command'g  Officer  of  his  Regm* 
of  Artillary  also  to  Col'o  Phebecca  of  the  Light  Infantry. 

Head  Q"  West  point,  Oct'  12*'^  79 

Such  officers  of  the  Line  whose  Duty  it  is  to  act  on  foot  in 
time  of  an  Engagm*  and  who  are  not  as  Yet  Supplyed  with 
Espontoons  are  to  use  their  utmost  Exertions  to  get  them.    And 

*This  list  doubtless  gives  the  Virginia  organizations  immediately  un- 
der Washington's  command  at  this  time.  Col  "Phebecia"  is  intended 
for  Febiger. 


158  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

it  is  Expected  from  Command'g  officers  of  Corps  that  will  use 
Every  means  in  their  power  To  furnish  them  with  Ba^^onets — 
In  a  word  they  will  take  Care  that  their  Corps  are  in  the  most 
perfect  order  for  Actual  Service. 

D.  O.  Cacayett,  Wednesday  Oct^  20*»»  79. 
F.  O.  Major  Lee. 

B.  O.  Oct^  20*^  79. 

Brigades  Returns  to  be  made  Immediately  of  the  Num''  of 
Espontoons  want'g 

For  Police  Cap*  Candell 

For  the  Day  Adj  *  Sinton 

Detail  the  Same  as  Yesterday  last 

D.  A.  O.  Cacayett,  Oct^  20*^  79 

A  fatigue  party  of  1  Cap"  &  1  Sub  1  Serj*  and  30  are  to  be 
immediately  Imployed  in  making  Fasheens  Gabeans  &  Pickets 
The  Officer  who  Commands  the  party  will  apply  to  Capt" 
Yoimg  for  what  Bill  hooks  he  has  in  the  Store,  And  to  the  Q-M 
of  Each  Brigade  for  what  Axes  that  can  be  Spared — Capt'' 
Young  will  point  out  the  place  for  Geting  the  wood  &c.  The 
following  Directions  must  be  observed  Viz  A  Gebean  4  feet 
High  3}/2  feet  Wide  A  fasheen  as  Long  as  Possible  10  Inches 
thick  well  Bound  and  Cut  Square  at  both  Ends — a  Picket  of 
Split  wood  of  4  feet  long  3  Inches  Square,  this  party  to  be 
Changed  Every  Day,  And  the  Cap*  To  Report  in  Writ'g  Every 
Evening  to  the  Deputy  Q.  M.  Gen'l  of  the  number  of  Each  kind 
he  has  made.  When  Tools  arrive  that  are  sent  for  This  party 
will  be  Considerably  increased,  the  Gen'l  will  be  very  much  ob- 
lidged  to  any  officer  in  the  Division  who  will  undertake  to  Super- 
intend and  Direct  this  business — Any  Gentleman  willing  to  do 
so  will  please  to  apply  to  Gen'l  Woodford. 

All  Officers  and  Non  Commission'd  officers  on  Detachm* 
fatigue  &c  are  immediately  on  their  Return  to  Camp  to  make  a 
Report  to  the  Adj*  General  Specifing  the  Circumstances  of  the 
Several  Employm*' 

1  Private  for  fatigue 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  159 

D.  A.  O.  Oct'  20*''  79.  9  oclock 

In  Case  of  an  alarm  The  Troops  will  parade  in  front  of  their 
Encampments  and  wait  for  Orders — 

The  Deputy  Q.  M.  Gen'l  will  Give  orders  to  the  Waggon  mas- 
ters, And  Every  person  in  his  Departm*  To  hold  themselves 
in  the  Greatest  Readiness  To  move  at  the  Shortest  warning  and 
the  Commanding  officer  of  Every  Corps  will  Give  the  Neces- 
sary Orders  to  those  under  his  Command  to  be  Alert  in  Case  of 
an  Alarm. 

D.  O.  Cacayett  Oct'  21  «*  79 

Field  Officer  Major  Merewether 

For  Police  Captain  Welsh 

For  to  morrow  Adj*  Merewether 

S  C        P 

Picquet 1 

InG<^.„ 1 

Q'G<i _ 1 

For  Com'^ 1 

R.  O.  Commanding  officers  of  Company s  are  Immediately 
to  make  Returns  for  Drawing  the  Gill  of  Rum  agreeable  to  Divi- 
sion Orders.  The  Serj*  major  Drum  &  fife  major  to  be  Drawn 
for  in  Cap*  for  in  Cap*  Hoffers  Com^. 

D.  O.  Cacayett.  Oct'  22^^  79 

F.  O.  Col'o  Gist 

For  police  Cap*  Hoff 

For  the  day  Adj*  Cary 

S.         C        P 

For  picquet 1 

For  in  G'^ 1 

For  Q'  G^.- 1         1 

For  Com<^ 1 

D.  O.  Cacayett.     Oct'  23'^  79 

F.  O.  Col'o  Nevill 


160  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Cap*  Hill  (2)  of  the  4*''  Virg'a  Reg*  has  been  so  Oblidging  as  to 
undertake  to  Superintend  The  fatigue  party  that  are  Employed 
in  making  fasheens  &c. 

The  Officers  who  Comm'^  their  partys  will  take  their  Direc- 
tions from  Cap*  Hill  and  at  Treat  beating  when  the  Come  in 
will  make  a  Report  to  Cap*  Hill  of  the  quantity  made  During 
the  Day.  Cap*  Hill  Excused  from  all  Duty  while  Engaged  in 
this  business. 

As  the  present  Mode  of  Issuing  the  State  Store  is  found  In- 
convenient as  well  to  the  Troops  as  to  the  Storekeeper,  The 
following  mode  is  to  be  aDopted,  The  Q.-M.  of  Each  Regm* 
are  to  Receive  the  Returns  of  the  Different  Companies  and  Di- 
gest them  Regm'l^  and  Draw  for  the  whole  Reg*  at  one  time  the 
Officers  Excepted  who  are  Drawn  as  heretofore  at  the  End  of 
the  month- 

The  Cap*  will  pay  to  the  Q-M.  the  Siun  Due  from  their  Com- 
panies to  the  State  for  the  Store  Rec^  Dureing  the  month,  who 
will  settle  and  pay  the  same  to  the  Storekeeper,  an  Officer  from 
the  Division  is  to  be  Employed  daily  to  stay  at  the  Store  Dur- 
ing the  time  of  Isuing,  To  prevent  the  Soldiers  from  Commit- 
ing  Disorder — 

The  Surgeons  of  Each  Regm*  are  to  Report  to  the  Col'o  Such 
Sick  as  Stand  in  need  of  Necessarys  from  the  Stores  and  the 
Store  keeper  will  Isue  to  such  sick  on  the  order  of  the  Col'o  Lint 
a  proportion  of  Tea,  Sugar  &  Chocolate  &c.  as  the  Col'o  Shall 
think  Necessary,  at  the  same  time  Retaining  the  Liquor  of 
Such  as  are  Drawn  for- 

^Though  the  regiment  and  rank  do  not  correspond  with  Heitman's  ac- 
count this  could,  apparently,  have  been  no  other  Va.  officer  than  Thomas 
Hill,  who  was  1st  lieutenant  7th  Va.,  Feb.  7,  1776;  captain  Nov.  13,  1776, 
transferred  to  5th  Va.  Sept.  14,  1778;  Major  July  4,  1779,  resigned  Feb. 
12,  1781. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  RECORDS.  161 

For  police  Cap*  Lapsley  (3) 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Robertson  (4) 

For  picqit  1  1  Serj* 


For  in  G'*  1  For  picket  1 

Q'  G'^  For  in  G"^ 

For  fat  2  Q'  G' 

Com'i? 

Serj*  Green 

R.  O.  A  Court  martial  whereof  Cap*  Hamilton  is  president 
to  set  this  day  at  10  Clock  at  the  presidents  Tent  for  the  Trial 
of  Serj*  Carter  Coniin'd  by  Lieu*  Merewether  for  Neglect  of 
Duty  and  for  Insolence  on  the  parade. 

The  Commanding  OflEicer  is  Exceedly  Sorry  to  think  that  he 
has  any  Individual  under  his  Com'^  who  could  be  Guilty  of  a 
Crime  of  so  Black  a  Die  The  Heinousness  of  which  must  be 
So  Stricking  as  to  Require  no  Comm* 

G  Gibson  Col'o. 


D.  O.  Cacayett— Oct  24*'>  79 

F  O.  Col'o  Brent 

Col'o  Gibson  is  apointed  field  officer  of  this  Day  Vice  Col'o 
Nevell. 

For  Detachment  Col'o  Nevell  Lieu**  Col'o  Dabney  &.  Allison, 
Major  Lee  and  Merewether. 

As  soon  as  the  weather  Clears  up  all  the  Waggons  and  Teems 
in  the  Division  are  to  Go  Down  on  a  Forageing  party  and  are 
to  be  held  in  Readiness  Accordingly  One  Col'o  Two  Lieu*  Col' 
&  Two  Majors  With  a  proportion  of  other  Officers  and  500  Men 
are  to  Compose  the  party 

John  Lapsley  ensign  7th  Va.  March  20,  1776;  2nd  lieutenant,  Nov. 
28,  1776;  wounded  at  Germantown,  Oct.  4,  1777;  1st  lieutenant  April  3d 
1778;  transferred  to  5th  Va.  Sept.  14,  1778;  resigned  May  7,  1779;  Heit- 
man  [and  here  he  was  yet  in  service  in  October,  1779] 

''James  Robertson  was  adjutant  13th  Va.  October  15,  1777  to . 


162  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

The  Commanding  officer  will  take  his  Orders  from  Gen'l 
Muhlenberg- 

For  Police  Cap*  Boswell 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Bown 

S        C        P 

For  Picquet 1 

For  in  G^ 1 

For  Q'  G" 1 

For  Command. 7 


10 


(to  be  CONTINUED.) 


COUNCIL  PAPERS.  163 


COUNCIL  PAPERS  1698-1700. 


(From  the  original  volume  in  the  Virginia  State  Library.) 


(continued) 


Proclamation  by  Nicholson  in  Regard  to  Trade. 

Virginia  ss. 

To  all  people  to  whom  these  presents  Shall  come  I  flfrancis 
Nicholson  Esq'r  His  Majesties  Leiutenant  and  Govenotir  Gen'll 
of  this  His  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  send  Greeting 

Know  you  that  I  the  Said  ffrancis  Nicholson  for  the  better 
and  more  due  Observacon  of  One  Act  of  Parliament  made  in 
the  five  and  twentieth  Yeare  of  the  Reign  of  King  Charles  the 
Second  Intituled  an  Act  for  Encouragement  of  the  Eastland 
and  Greeland  Trades  and  for  better  Secureing  the  Plantacon 
trade  have  Deputed  and  Impowered  and  doe  hereby  Depute 
and  Impower  to  be  Collector  of 

all  the  Rates  Duties  and  Impositions  arising  and  groweing 
due  to  His  Majesty  in  in  this  His  Maj'ts 

Colony  and  Dominion  by  Vertue  of  the  Said  Act  whereby  he 
hath  power  to  enter  into  any  Ship  Bottom  Boat  or  other  Ves- 
sell  as  also  into  any  Shop  House  Warehouse  Hostlery  or  other 
place  whatsoever  to  make  dilligent  Search  into  any  Trunk 
Chest  Pack  Case  Truss  or  any  other  Parcell  or  Package  what- 
soever for  any  good's  Wares  or  Merchandises  prohibited  to 
be  imported  or  exported  or  whereof  the  Customes  or  other 
Duties  have  not  been  duly  paid  and  the  Same  to  Seize  to  His 
Maj'ts  use  And  also  to  put  in  Execucon  all  other  lawfull  Powers 


164  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

and  authorities  for  the  better  managing  and  Collecting  the 
Said  Duties  in  all  things  proceeding  as  the  law  directs  hereby- 
willing  and  requireing  all  and  every  His  Maj'ts  Officers  and 
Ministers  and  all  others  whom  it  may  concern  to  be  aiding  and 
assisting  to  him  in  all  things  as  becometh  And  I  doe  further 
grant  to  the  Said  that  he  Shall  enjoy 

the  Said  Office  During  Pleasure  or  untill  the  Hon'ble  Com- 
iconers  of  His  Maj'ts  Customes  Shall  give  further  or  other 
Direccons  therein  Giveing  under  my  hand  and  Seal  this 

Day  of  in  the  Eleventh  Yeare  of  His 

Maj'ts  Reigne  An'oqt  Dm.  1699.     A  Comicon  for 
to  be  Collector  of 


Proclamation  by  Nicholson  in  Regard  to  Shipping. 

Virginia  ss. 

To  all  people  to  whom  these  presents  Shall  come  I  ffrancis 
Nicholson  Esqr  His  Maj'ts  Leiutenant  and  Govenour  Gen- 
erall  of  this  His  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  send  Greeting- 
Know  Yee  that  I  the  said  ffrancis  Nicholson  by  Virtue  of  one 
Act  of  Parliament  made  in  the  twelfth  yeare  of  the  Reign  of  King 
Charles  the  second  Intituled  an  Act  for  the  Encouargeing  and 
increasing  of  Shipping  and  Navigacon  &  one  Act  of  parliam't 
made  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  his  s'd  Maj'tys  Reign  Ent'd  an 
act  for  ye  encouragem't  of  trade  and  one  Act  of  Parliam't  made 
in  the  twenty  second  and  twenty  third  Yeares  of  the  Reign  of 
the  Said  King  Charles  Intituled  an  Act  to  prevent  the  planting 
of  Tobacco  in  England  and  regulateing  the  plantacon  Trade  And 
one  Act  of  Parliam't  made  in  the  twenty  fifth  Year  of  the 
Reign  of  the  Said  King  Charles  Intituled  an  Act  for  the  en- 
couragem't of  the  Greenland  and  Eastland  Trades  and  for 
the  better  Secureing  the  plantcaon  trade  and  One  Act  of  Par- 
liam't made  in  the  seventh  and  eighth  Yeares  of  his  late  Maj'ts 
Reign  Intituled  an  act  for  the  preventing  frauds  and  regulateing 
abuses  in  the  plantacon  trade  and  in  pursuance  of  the  Authori- 
ties by  the  Said  Acts  of  Parliam't  and  every  of  them  to  me 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  166 

given  have  Deputed  and  impowered  and  doe  hereby  Depute 
and    Impower  within    the 

precints  or  Districts  of  in  this  His  Maj'ts 

Colony  and  Dominion  pursuant  to  the  Said  Acts  of  ParHam't 
to  Execute  the  Office  and  Duty  of  the  Officer  comonly  called 
and  known  by  the  Name  of  the  Navall  Officer  with  all  and 
singular  the  Rights  powers  and  Authority's  to  me  given  thereby 
According  to  the  severall  Rules  Orders  and  Direccons  therein 
prescribed  and  also  to  put  in  execucon  all  other  lawfull  powers 
and  Authorities  belonging  to  the  said  office  in  all  things  pro- 
ceeding as  the  Law  directs  Hereby  willing  and  requireing  all 
and  every  his  Maj'ts  Officers  and  Ministers  and  all  others 
whom  it  may  concern  to  be  aiding  and  assisting  to  him  in  all 
things  as  becometh  and  I  doe  further  grant  imto  the  Said 
that  he  Shall  enjoy  the  Said  Office  dureing  pleastire  given  under 
my  hand  and  Seal  at  James  Citty  the  day  of 

in  the  Eleventh  yeare  of  His  Maj'ts  Reign  Anoq  Dm  1692 
A  Comicon  for  to  be  Navall  Officer 

of 


Proclamation  in  Regard  to  the  Public  Revenue. 

Virginia  ss. 

To  all  to  whom  these  presents  Shall  come  I  ffrancis  Nicholson 
Esq'r  His  Maj'ts  Leiutenant  and  Govenoiu-  Generall  of  this 
His  Maj'ts  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  send  Greeting 

Know  Yee  that  I  the  Said  ffrancis  Nicholson  By  Vertue  of 
One  Act  of  Assembly  made  at  James  Citty  the  Eighth  day  of 
June  1680  Intituled  an  Act  for  raising  a  publick  Revenue  for 
the  better  Support  of  the  Govemm't  of  this  His  Maj'ts  Colony 
of  Virginia  And  One  Act  of  Assembly  made  at  James  Citty 
the  tenth  day  of  October  1693  Intituled  an  Act  laying  an  Im- 
position upon  Skins  and  ffurs  for  the  better  Support  of  the  Col- 
ledge  of  William  and  Mary  in  Virginia,  and  One  Act  of  As- 
sembly made  at  James  Citty  the  twenty  seaventh  day  of  Aprill 
1699,  Intituled  an  Act  for  Lessening  the  Levy  by  the  Poll  and 


166  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

laying  and  imposicon  upon  Liquors  for  and  towards  the  build- 
ing the  Capitoll  and  other  PubHck  uses  and  one  Act  of  Assem- 
bly made  upon  the  said  twenty  seventh  Day  of  Aprill  Intituled 
an  Act  for  Laying  an  Imposicon  upon  servants  and  slaves  Im- 
ported into  this  Coimtry  towards  the  building  the  Capitoll  by 
the  advice  of  His  Maj'ts  Hon'ble  Councill  of  State  for  this  His 
Colony  and  Dominion  have  appointed  deputed  and  Impowered 
and  doe  hereby  appoint  Depute  and  impower 

to  be  Collector  and  Receiver  of  all  the  Rates 
Duties  and  Impositions  ariseing  and  groweing  Due  to  His 
Maj'ty  in  this  the  precinct  or  District  of 

within  this  His  Maj'ts  Colony  and  Dominion  by  Virtue  of 
the  Said-  Acts  of  Assembly  or  any  of  them  to  and  for  the  Sev- 
erall  uses  therein  menconed  and  directed  and  I  doe  also  com- 
iconate  and  authorise  the  Said  to  putt 

in  execucon  all  lawfull  powers  and  authorities  for  the  better 
manageing  and  Collecting  the  Said  Duties  in  all  things  pro- 
ceeding as  the  law  directs,  hereby  willing  and  requireing  all 
and  every  His  Maj'ts  Officers  and  Ministers  and  all  others 
whom  it  may  concern  to  be  aiding  and  assisting  to  him  in  all 
things  as  becometh,  and  I  doe  further  grant  unto  the  said 

that  he  Shall  enjoy  the  said  Office  dure- 
ing  pleasure  Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  James  Citty 
the  day  of  in  the  Eleventh  Year 

of  His  Maj'ts  Reign  Annoq.  Dm.  1699. 

A  Comicon  for  Gent  to  be  Collect© 

of  ye  Virginia  Duties  in 


The  Oath  of  a  Collector. 

I :  A :  B :  of  in  the  Colony  of  Virginia  doe 

solemnly  Swear  to  doe  my  utmost  that  all  matters  and  things 
contained  in  an  Act  of  Parliament  made  in  England  in  the 
twelfth  yeare  of  the  Reign  of  his  late  Maj'ty  King  Charles  the 
Second  Intituled  an  Act  for  encouraging  and  encreasing  of 
Shipping  and  navigacon  and  one  other  Act  made  in  the  fifteenth 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  167 

Yeare  of  the  Reign  of  the  said  King  Charles  the  second  In- 
tituled an  act  for  the  Encouragm't  of  trade  and  one  Act  of  par- 
liam't  made  in  the  twenty  second  and  third  yeares  of  the  Reign 
of  the  said  King  Charles  the  second  Intitutled  an  act  to  pre- 
vent the  planting  Tobacco  in  England  and  regnlateing  the 
Plantacon  Trade,  and  one  Act  of  Parliam't  made  in  the  twenty 
fifth  yeare  of  the  Reign  of  the  said  King  Charles  the  Second 
Intituled  an  act  for  the  Enconragm't  of  the  Green  land  and 
Eastland  trades  and  for  the  better  Secureing  of  the  plantacon 
trade  and  one  Act  of  Parliam't  made  in  y'e  seventh  and  eighth 
yeares  of  His  pr'sent  Maj'ts  Reign  Intituled  an  act  for  the 
preventing  frauds  and  regulateing  abuses  in  the  Plantation 
trade  and  also  all  other  Acts  which  have  been  made  for  the 
beter  regulateing  and  secureing  the  Plantacon  trade  so  far  as 
y'e  same  are  now  in  force  Shall  be  punctually  and  bona  fide 
observed  according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  thereof 
soe  far  as  appertaines  to  me  the  Collector  of  the  said  District. 

Soe  help  me  God. 

(The  Oath  of  the  Navall  Officer  is  the  same  as  that  of  the 
Collector  Mutatis  mutandis) 


The  Oath  of  the  Collector  of  the  Virginia  Duties. 

I :  A :  B :  Collector  of  the  Virginia  Duties  in  the  Precinct  of 
in  the  Colony  of  Virginia  doe  solemnly 
Swear  to  doe  my  utmost  that  all  the  matters  and  things  con- 
tained in  one  Act  of  Assembly  made  at  James  Citty  the  eighth 
day  of  June  1680  intituled  an  act  for  raising  apublick  Revenue 
for  the  better  support  of  the  Govemtn't  of  this  His  Maj'ts 
Colony  of  Virginia  and  one  Act  of  Assembly  made  at  James 
City  the  tenth  day  of  October  1693  Intituled  an  Act  for  lay- 
ing on  Imposition  on  skins  and  ffurr's  for  the  better  support 
of  the  Colledge  of  William  and  Mary  in  Virginia  And  one  act 
of  Assembly  made  at  James  Citty  the  twenty  Seaventh  day  of 
Aprill  1699  Intituled  an  Act  for  Lessening  the  Levy  by  the  PoU 


168  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

and  laying  an  Imposicon  upon  liquor's  for  and  towards  the  build- 
ing the  Capittoll  and  other  publick  uses  and  one  Act  of  Assem- 
bly made  at  James  Citty  upon  the  said  twenty  seaventh  day  of 
Aprill,  Intituled  an  Act  for  laying  an  Imposition  on  Servants 
and  Slaves  imported  into  this  Country  towards  the  building 
the  Capitoll  and  also  all  other  Acts  of  Assembly  which  have 
been  made,  and  are  now  in  force  relateing  to  trade  shall  be 
punctually  and  bona  fide  observed  according  to  the  true  in- 
tent and  meaning  thereof  as  far  as  appertains  to  me  the  Col- 
lector of  the  Virginia  Duties,  within  the  District  aforesaid. 

Soe  help  me  God. 


Orders  IN  Regard  to  Pirates. 

Whitehall,  25.  September,   1697. 
Sir 

His  Majesty  having  taken  into  Consideration  how  much  it 
concerns  the  good  of  his  Subjects,  and  y'e  security  of  Trade, 
that  all  Pyrates  and  Sea  Rovers  should  be  supprest,  who  are 
observed  to  have  very  much  Encreased  of  late  in  their  ntun- 
bers  and  to  have  done  great  damages  as  well  to  his  Majesty's 
Subjects  as  to  y'e  Subjects  of  other  princes  and  States  in  amity 
with  his  Majesty,  and  there  being  ground  to  beleive,  that  they 
have  been  encouraged  to  this  boldness  by  the  easy  admittance 
they  have  found  into  his  Majesty es  Colony es  and  Plantations 
in  America  where  some  of  them  have  been  protected,  or  were 
not  Enquired  after  as  ought  to  have  been  done  in  order  to 
bringing  them  to  pimishment  His  Majesty  has  commanded 
me  to  signify  his  express  pleasiu-e  to  the  respective  Govemours 
of  the  Colonyes  aforesaid,  that  they  use  their  utmost  Diligence 
and  strictly  enjoyne  the  same  to  all  officers  under  their  Com- 
mand, that  due  care  be  taken  within  the  limits  of  their  severall 
Jurisdictions,  To  Arrest,  seize,  and  secure  the  Ships,  Persons 
and  Effects  of  all  such  Pyrates  and  Sea  Rovers  as  also  that  a 
true  and  Exact  Inventory  be  made  of  all  Money  Plate  Jewells 
Goods  or  other  Effects  whatsoever  brought  in  by,  or  any  way 
belonging  to  the  said  Pyrates  the  same  to  be  signed  and  attested 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  10» 

by  proper  Officers  and  that  an  account  thereof,  and  of  your 
proceedings  herein,  be  by  the  first  oppertunity  transmitted 
to  his  Majesty  by  the  hands  of  one  of  his  Principall  Secretary's 
of  State,  to  the  end,  that  such  further  direccons  may  be  sent 
you  as  his  Majesty  shall  think  necessary;  All  which  you  are 
therefore  carefully  to  observe,  and  in  each  particular  conform 
yourself  to  his  Majestyes  pleasure  accordingly  I  am 
Sir 

Yoiu-  most  himible  Servant 

Shrewsbury 

To  his  Excellency  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  Govemour  of  Mary- 
land or  in  his  absence  to  y'e  Govemotu:  for  y'e  time  being  in 
Maryland. 


Instructions  in  Regard  to  Martial  Law. 

Additional  Instructions  for  our  Trusty 
and  wellbeloved  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r. 
Our   Lieutenant   and   Govemour   Gen- 
eral! of  Our  Colony  and  Dominion  of 
William  R.  Virginia    in    America.     Given    at    our 

Court  at  Kensington  the  31st  Day  of 
(L.  S.)  May  1699.     In  the  Eleaventh  Year  of 

our  Reign. 
Whereas  by  a  Clause  in  your  Commision  for  the  Government 
of  our  Colony  &  Dominion  of  Virginia,  there  is  a  power  vested 
in  you  to  execute  Martiall  Law  in  time  of  Invasion  Lisurrection 
or  Warr,  as  also  upon  Soldiers  in  Pay,  which  implies  a  Power  of 
Executing  such  Martiall  Law  upon  Soldiers  in  Pay  even  in 
time  of  Peace,  and  whereas  upon  consideracon  of  y'e  present 
time  of  Peace,  We  have  thought  fit  that  the  foremenconed 
Words,  as  also  upon  Soldiers  in  Pay,  be  omitted  in  the  like 
Commissions;  Yet  nevertheless  it  being  necessary  that  care  be 
taken  for  the  keeping  of  good  discipline  amongst  the  soldiers 
in  Pay  that  are  now  in  any  of  our  Plantacons  or  that  we  may 
at  any  time  hereafter  send  thither  which  may  be  provided  for 


170  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

by  y'e  Legislative  power  in  each  of  our  said  Plantacons  re- 
spectively OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  THEREFORE  IS, 
that  you  FORBEAR  in  time  of  Peace  to  put  the  power  conferred 
upon  you  by  the  foremenconed  Words  also  upon  Soldiers  in 
Pay,  in  Execution :  And  that  you  recomend  unto  the  Generall 
Assembly  of  our  said  Colony  at  such  time  as  you  shall  find 
necessary  The  passing  of  such  Act  for  the  punishing  of  Mutiny 
Desertion  and  false  Musters,  and  for  the  better  preserving  of 
good  dicipline  amongst  Soldiers  in  pay  as  may  best  answer 
those  ends. 

By  His  Majesty's  Command 
Ja:  Vernon. 


Order  in  Regard  to  Scotch  Vessels  in  the  West  Indies. 
(The  Darien  Settlement.) 

Duplicate  Whitehall    2d   Janry    169^-99 

Sir 

His  Maj'ty  having  received  Advice  from  y'e  Island  of  Jamaica 
that  severall  Ships  of  force  fitted  out  in  Scotland  were  arrived 
at  y'e  Island  of  S't  Thomas,  (with  an  Intencon  as  they  Declared) 
to  settle  themselves  in  some  parts' of  AMERICA  their  design  being 
tmknown  to  his  Maj'ty  least  y'e  same  should  derogate  from 
y'e  treaties  his  Maj'ty  have  entered  into  with  y'e  Crown  of 
Spain  or  be  otherwise  prejudiciall  to  any  of  his  Maj  'ts  Colon  yes 
in  y'e  west  Indies:  his  Maj'ty  Comands  me  to  signify  his  Pleas- 
ure to  you,  that  you  strictly  enjoyn  all  his  Maj'ts  Subjects 
or  others  inhabiting  within  y'e  districts  of  your  Govemm't 
that  they  forbear  holding  any  correspondence  with,  or  giv- 
ing any  assistance  to  any  of  y'e  said  p'sns,  while  they  are  en- 
gaged in  y'e  fores'd  enterprize;  &  that  no  provisions,  armes, 
amunicon  or  other  necessarys  whatsoever  be  carryed  to  them 
from  thence,  or  be  pmitted  to  be  carryed  either  in  their  own 
Vessells  or  other  Ships  or  Vessells  for  their  use;  his  Maj'ty 
requires  that  you  do  not  fail  herein,  but  take  particular  care 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  171 

that  ye  above  menconed  direccons  be  duly  observed,  and  that 
you  send  hither  an  account  of  your  proceedings  in  ye  execucon 
of  these  his  Commands.     I  am 

Sir 

Your  most  humble  Servant 

Ja:  Vernon. 

Whitehall.  18th  June  1699. 
Sir 

I  signifyed  to  You  his  Maj'ts  Pleasure  in  January  last  con- 
cerning y'e  scots  who  had  undertaken  an  Expedicon  to  the  West 
Indies,  the  place  not  being  then  known  in  which  they  designed 
to  settle  and  his  Maj'ty  being  since  informed  that  they  have 
taken  possession  of  y'e  Bay  of  Caerat  near  y'e  Bay  of  Darien 
between  Cartagena  &  Porto  Bello  and  are  fortifying  themselves 
there,  seeming  resolved  to  maintain  it  by  force  against  the 
Spaniards:  His  Maj'ty  Considering  this  attempt  as  a  violacon 
of  the  Treaty's  subsisting  between  his  Maj'ty  and  the  Crown 
of  Spain,  Comands  me  to  acquaint  you  that  he  expects  his  for- 
mer orders  shotild  be  strictly  observed,  a  Duplicate  whereof 
is  therefore  inclosed  I  suppose  uopn  the  receipt  of  the  first 
Letter  You  have  given  all  necessary  Directions  that  no  Cor- 
respondence should  be  kept  with  ye  said  Scotch  Colony  and 
that  no  provisions,  Ammunition  or  other  assistance  should  be 
fumisht  them,  or  be  suffered  to  be  conveighed  to  them,  from  any 
part  of  your  Government,  His  Maj'ty  would  have  y'e  same 
care  continued,  so  as  y'e  said  orders  may  in  all  particulars  be 
fully  obeyed  and  put  in  execucon. 

I  am 

Sir 

Yotu-  most  humble  Servant, 

Ja:  Vernon. 
To 

Francis  Nicholson  Esq'r  His  Maj'ts  Lieutenant  and  Govemour 
Generall  of 

Virginia 

in 
Ja:  Vernon  America. 


172  virginia  historical  magazine. 

Privy  Council  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia. 

Whitehall   June   the   26th   1699. 
Sir 

His  Majesty  having  been  pleased  by  some  late  orders  in 
Councill  to  regulate  certain  matters  relating  to  his  Plantations 
in  America,  and  to  require  us  to  signify  his  pleasure  therein 
to  the  respective  Govemours  of  his  said  plantacons  and  do 
.what  may  be  thereupon  further  necessary. 

You  are  to  take  notice,  that  his  Majesty  upon  taking  into 
Consideracon  the  Inconveniencies  arising  from  the  Execution 
of  Patent  places  by  Deputies  either  unqualifyed  or  too  much 
inclined  by  the  high  Rents  they  pay  unto  Patentees,  to  make 
indirect  advantages  of  their  respective  Places,  has  thought  fit 
to  order  that  all  the  Patent  Officers  within  the  plantacons  be 
obliged  by  their  patents  or  otherwise  to  actuall  Residence  upon 
the  place,  and  to  execute  their  respective  offices  in  their  own 
persons  imless  in  case  of  sickness  or  other  Incapacity.  And 
therefore  in  order  to  the  better  observacon  of  his  Majesty s 
pleasure  in  this  particular,  we  think  it  necessary  that  you  trans- 
mit unto  Us  by  the  first  opportunity  a  full  and  perfect  accoimt 
of  all  the  patent  offices  within  yotir  Government  with  the 
particular  tenour  and  Condicon  of  each  respective  Grant  and 
how  those  conditions  are  complied  with  in  the  Execution  of 
the  same:  Which  we  shall  accordingly  expect. 

You  are  also  to  take  notice  that  his  Majesty  has  been  pleas'd 
to  Direct  concerning  t  he  Ships  of  War  which  are  or  may  be  ap- 
pointed to  attend  any  of  his  Plantacons  that  especiall  care  be 
taken  that  they  be  good  Sailors;  That  they  be  annually  relieved 
by  others;  That  the  Commanders  thereof  be  strictly  required 
to  observe  the  Laws  of  the  Plantacons  relating  to  the  Departure 
or  Transportacon  of  the  Inhabitants,  and  not  to  carry  off  any 
Inhabitants  from  the  said  Plantacons  contrary  to  the  Laws 
provided  in  each  Plantacon  respectively:  And  that  they  do 
not  leave  their  stations  in  any  of  the  Plantacons  without  the 
previous  knowledge  of  the  respective  Govemours  of  the  said 
Plantacons  and  a  due  regard  to  his  Maj'ts  Service  in  those 
parts.     Concerning  all  which  matters  in  your  Govemm't,  to- 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  173 

gether  with  whatever  else  has  been  formerly  signifyed  unto 
you  relating  to  his  Maj'ts  Ships  of  War  there,  We  think  it 
likewise  necessary  that  you  give  us  from  time  to  time  an  exact 
account. 

We  have  this  to  add  in  Particular  relating  to  the  Colony  of 
Virginia  that  the  Ship  ordered  by  his  Maj'ty  for  the  Service 
there  is  to  be  of  the  sixth  Rate. 

And  whereas  great  complaints  are  frequently  made  of  the 
Mischeifs  committed  by  Pyrates  in  remote  parts,  and  of  the 
support  and  encouragem't  which  they  still  find  in  his  Maj'ts 
Plantacons  in  America  notwithstanding  the  repeated  directions 
that  have  been  given  to  the  respective  Govern 'rs  thereof  to 
take  all  possible  care  for  the  preventing  of  such  ill  practices 
we  cannot  but  thereupon  mind  you  to  use  &  continue  your 
utmost  diligence  in  discovering,  suppressing  and  punishing  all 
offenders  &  offences  of  that  kind  whatsoever  within  your  Gov- 
emm't;  And  to  that  intent  we  more  particularly  recomend  to 
your  care  that  strict  inquiry  be  made  after  the  ship  &  men 
described  in  the  enclosed  paper,  and  that  such  of  them  as  can 
be  found,  be  punished  with  the  utmost  severity  of  Law  and 
the  ship  and  cargo  secured  for  those  to  whom  they  do  belong. 
So  we  bid  you  heartily  farewell. 

Yoiu"  very  Loving  Friends 
Stamford 
Lexington 
Ph:  Meadows 
John  Locke 
Abr:  Hill 


Board  of  Trade  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia. 

Whitehall  June  the  28^^  1699. 

Sir 
We  have  received  your  Letters  of  the  4**'  and  27*''  of  Febru- 
ary last  with  the  severall  Papers  therein  menconed,  And  as  we 


174  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

have  been  alway's  satisfied  with  the  exact  method  of  your  ad- 
vices, and  are  so  with  the  account  you  have  now  given  us  of 
your  proceedings  as  well  In  leaving  the  Government  of  Mary- 
land, as  since  your  Entrance  upon  the  Government  of  Virginia, 
we  desire  you  to  continue  the  same  punctual!  advice  upon  all 
occasions,  with  Assurance  that  we  will  not  be  wanting  in  any- 
thing that  lyes  in  us  to  second  yotir  Endeavours  in  promoting 
his  Majesty's  Service  and  the  Interest  of  the  Colony  Comitted 
to  your  Charge. 

There  is  a  Clause  in  your  Instructions  relating  to  the  repealing 
of  an  Act  past  in  the  Generall  Assembly  there  in  1680  about 
Attorneys,  which  having  been  given  in  the  same  manner  to 
former  Govemours,  we  desire  you  to  inform  us  particularly  how 
that  matter  at  present  stands. 

You  will  observe  by  a  Clause  in  your  Instructions  relating 
to  the  building  of  a  house  for  your  self  and  other  successive 
Govemour  of  that  Colony  to  Hve  in  that  it  is  thought  necessary 
such  a  house  be  built,  and  that  his  Maj*^  does  not  think  fitt  to 
continue  the  former  allowance  of  a  Hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
P  An.  to  Govemours  for  hous  rent.  Therefore  we  expect  to  hear 
of  your  Endeavours  to  promote  that  work,  and  your  report 
thereupon  according  to  the  tenour  of  that  Clause. 

The  Revisall  of  the  laws  of  that  Colony  is  also  a  thing  esteemed 
to  be  highly  necessary  towards  the  affecting  which  S''  Edmund 
Andros  advised  us  some  while  since  of  the  Endeavours  he  had 
used  and  of  the  Difficulties  that  occurred  therein,  chiefly  through 
a  disagreement  between  the  Councill  and  Assembly.  Where- 
fore the  same  thing  being  again  recomended  to  your  care  by 
your  Instructions  as  we  doubt  not  of  your  Endeavours  therein 
we  shall  be  glad  to  hear  that  the  prove  effectuall  for  the  accom- 
plishing of  so  usefull  a  Work. 

There  are  many  other  things  in  yoiu*  Instructions  somewhat 
different  from  those  which  have  been  given  to  former  Govemours 
which  have  bin  thought  for  his  Maj*^  service  &  y''  wellfare  of 
that  Colony  And  therefore  tho'  we  doubt  not  of  your  Care  in  all, 
yet  we  desire  more  particularly  an  account  of  your  proceedings 


COUNCIL  PAPERS. 


175 


in  those  of  that  kind  and  how  you  find  them  suited  to  the  pres- 
ent state  of  that  Colony.     So  we  bid  you  heartily  Farewell. 
Your  loving  Friends. 
Stamford 
Lexington 
Ph.  Meadows 
John  Locke 
Abr.  Hill 


Auditor  Byrd's  Account  OF  Import  and  Export  Duties,  1699. 


974 

.     13 

502 

..     06 

176 

..     19 

41 

..      2 

9 

..      8 

10 

b 

4 

..      7.. 

3^ 


Virg'a  ss  William  Byrd  Aud""  to  his  Maj*'««  1699      Rev- 

enue of  Two  shillings  for  Every  H*^^  of  Tobacco  Exported  out 
of  this  Colony  of  Virg'a  and  15*^  P  Tun  for  every  Ship  trading 
There  and  Sixpence  p'  pole  for  every  P  son  imported  into  this 
Colony  for  halfe  a  Year  Ending  the  twenty  fourth  of  December 
inclusive 

is     D' 
June  24  Li  s  d 

To  Ball*=*  due  from  this  Accomptant  1 

to  his  Maj^y j 

To  Col'o  Rich'i  Lee  CoU'ctr  of  Poto-  ^ 
mack   District  his  Accoimt   of 
Two  Shillings  P  H'^'^  Comitted 

Last  Acco'' 

To  his  Acco*  of  port  Duty's  and  Head 

Money  

To  Col'o  Scarburgh  his  Acco*  of  the 
Eastern     Shore    district    Two 

Shillings  P  H''<=  ._... 

To  his  Acco*  port  Duty's  and  Head 

Money _ 9 

To  Col'o  Hill  Collect'  of  the  Upper- 
District  of  James  River  his  Ac- 
count of  Two  Shillings  P  H''^.... 
To  his  Acco*  of  port  Duty's  and  Head 
Money 


m 


176 


VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


Col'o  Edm  Jenings  Collect'  of  Yorke 
River  his  Acco*  of  Two  Shill- 
ings P  H'^^ - 

To  his  Accotint  of  port  Dutyes  and  ^ 
Head  Money — J 

To  Ralph  Wormely  Esq'  Collect'  of 
Rappahanocke  district  his  Ac- 
co* of  two  Shillings  P  H'^^ 

To  his  Account  of  port  Duty's  &  head  \ 
Money j 

To  M'  Peter  Hayman  Collect'  of  the  1 
Low'  dstrict  of  James  River  his  > 
Acco*  of  two  Shillings  P  H^^*....  J 

To  his  Acco*  of  port  Duties  and  head  ^ 
Money j 


24. 


73. 


27 


107. 


27. 


^1986. 


Contra  Creditor 


By  paid  his  Excellency  for  six  Mon — 
eths  Salary  Ending  the  Twenty- 
fourth  of  Decemb'  1699  by  or- 
der of  his  Excellency 

By  paid  his  Excell^^  Six  Moneths 
House  rent  Ending  the  same 
time  by  Order  as  before 

By  paid  the  Hon'ble  W'"  Blathwayt 
Esq'  his  Maj*'  Aud'  &c  a  Six 
moneths  Salary  ending  the  24*'' 
Xb'  1699  by  order  before. 

By  paid  M'-  Benj'a  Harrison  Clke  of 
the  CounciU  six  moneths  Sal- 
ary Ending  the  same  time  by 
order  as  before 

By  paid  Bartholomew  ffowler  Esq'  his 
Maj*^  Attorney  Gen'll  six  mon- 
eths Salary  ending  the  same 
time  time  by  order  as  before 


Li 


1000. 


76. 


J       50. 


25. 


20. 


18 0 

12 0 

12 2 

5 6 

10 0 

13 3 

13 9 

s  d 

0 • 

0 0 

0 e 

00 00 

00 00 


COUNCIL  PAPERS. 


177 


By  paid  the  Solicit'  of  Virg'a  affairs  six 
moneths  Salary  ending  the  same 
time  by  order  as  before 

By  paid  Edward  Ross  Gunner  of  the 
fort  at  James  City  six  moneths 
Salary  ending  the  same  time  by 
order  as  before _ 

By  paid  M''  Benj'a  Harrison  Gierke  of 
the  Gouncill  for  y®  Ministers 
Last  Gen '11  Court  and  for  Mes- 
sages and  other  Extraordinary 
Charges  of  the  Government  by 
order  as  before 

By  the  Collectors  Salary  of  ^1012..00 
05<^  at  10  P  Cent 

By  the  Auditors  Salary  of  ^910..16 
4^  at  73^  P  Cent.___ 


50 


00 00 


00 00 


29. 

101. 

68. 


•^1424. 


00  9 

4 01^ 

6 2 

10 11^ 


So  that  there  remains  due  to  his  Maj  ^^  '' 
from  this  Accomptant  the  Sume 
of  five  hundred  Sixty  Two 
pounds  Two  Shillings  and  nine 
pence  half  permy  to  Ball 'a  this 
Account 


562. 


-9>^ 


^1986. 


13 


Memorand.  The  Gent  of  his  Maj*'  Hon'ble  Councill  were 
paid  their  Salary's  but  till  the  27*'^  of  Aprill  Last  as  P  last  ac- 
count sent  will  appear,  so  that  in  Aprill  next  they  will  have 
the  whole  years  Salary  due  to  them.     Viz*  ^350  Sterl. 


178  virginia  historical  magazine. 

Board  of  Trade  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia 

Whitehall  November  the  30*'^  1699 
Sir 

We  shall  ere  long  give  you  a  particular  answer  to  your  Letter 
of  the  1'*  of  July  last.  But  in  y"  mean  while  a  Letter  from  his 
Maj*^  relating  to  pyrates  (tho'  it  be  not  y*  main  thing  intended 
on  that  Subject)  lying  in  our  hands  and  an  Opportunity  offer- 
ing of  sending  it  by  D'  Bray  who  is  going  for  Maryland  and  will 
take  care  to  transmit  it  to  you  by  some  safe  Conveyance,  We 
would  not  omit  to  send  it  accordingly  here  inclosed.  So  we 
bid  you  heartily  Farewell. 

Your  very  Loving  Friends 
Stanford 
Ph :  Meadowes 
William  Blathwayt 
John  Pollexfen 

For  His  Maj*^  Especiall  Service 

For  The  Hon'ble  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'  Lieutenant  and 
Governor  General  of  His  Maj*'  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Vir- 
ginia in  America,  Or  to  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  that  Prov- 
ince for  the  time  being. 

Virginia. 


Proclamation  in  Regard  to  Pirates 

William  R. 

Trusty  and  Welbeloved.  We  Greet  you  well 

Whereas  in  y^  frequent  Resort  of  Pyrates  to  several  of  our 
Plantations  in  America  it  may  sonetimes  happen  that  you  may 
have  intelligence  of  some  of  them  keeping  upon  their  Guard  or 
at  a  distance  by  Sea  or  Land  either  within  or  in  the  Neighbour- 
hood of  our  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  committed  to 
your  Charge  so  that  it  may  be  dificult  for  you  to  seize  them 
either  by  surprize  or  force  in  such  cases  therefore  (as  opportu- 
nities may  offer)  you  are  to  insinuate  to  them  by  Letters,  Mes- 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  179 

sengers  or  otherwise  in  the  best  manner  You  can  that  those  who 
shall  be  forwardest  to  surrender  themselves  and  most  ingenious 
in  their  Confessions  will  have  the  surest  groimds  to  hope  for 
our  Mercy. 

And  Whereas  We  have  been  informed  from  Severall  of  Our 
said  plantations  that  divers  persons  committed  for  Pyracy  have 
through  the  Neglect  or  Willfull  Connivance  of  the  Goalers 
escaped  out  of  the  respective  Goales  to  which  they  were  so 
committed  which  is  a  matter  of  such  Consequence  as  deserves 
to  be  strictly  looked  into  We  do  hereby  will  and  Require  you 
u  pon  any  such  occassion  happening  within  our  said  Colony  and 
Dominion  of  Virginia  to  use  your  utmost  endeavors  that  the 
goalers  and  all  {other  persons  concern 'd  or  assisting  in  that 
Crime  be  punished  for  the  Same  with  the  utmost  severity  of  the 
Law  or  if  the  Law  of  our  said  Colony  and  Domimion  of  Vir- 
ginia be  defective  in  that  point  that  you  endeavor  to  get  some 
effectuall  Act  past  there  for  preventing  not  only  the  like  Mis- 
chief, but  in  General  the  Escape  of  all  Prisoners  for  the  future. 
Given  at  Our  Court  at  Kensington  the  10*''  day  of  November, 
1699,  In  the  Eleventh  Year  of  Our  Reign. 

By  his  Majesties  Command. 

To  Oiu-  Trusty  and  well  beloved  Francis  Nicholson  Esq'  Our 
Lieutenant  Govemour  and  Comander  in  Cheif  of  Our  Colony 
and  Dominion  of  Virginia  in  America. 

And  to  Our  Chief  Govemour  or  Governours  there  for  the  time 
being. 


Proclamation  in  Regard  to  Pirates 

William  R. 

Trusty  and  well  Beloved  wee  greet  you  well. 

Whereas  we  have  been  informed  that  Severall  Pirates  have 
been  lately  Seized  in  our  Plantations  in  America  and  it  being 
Necessary  that  due  Care  be  taken  for  bringing  them  and  all 
others  that  May  in  Like  Manner  be  Seized  hereafter  to  Con- 
dign Punishment  wee  do  hereby  will  and  require  you  to  Send 
hither  in  Safe  Custody  all  Pirates  who  are  or  shall  be  in  Prison 


180  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

in  ovii  Collony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  under  yo'  Govemm* 
at  the  time  of  yo'  Receiving  this  directions  and  also  to  send  the 
Wittnesses  and  other  Evidences  upon  which  the  s<^  Pirates  have 
been  Seized  and  w'=^  May  be  of  any  use  towards  thire  Convic- 
tion here  that  Soe  they  May  be  Tryed  and  Ptmished  According 
to  Law,  and  in  the  Meanwhile  to  take  Care  that  the  goods  and 
Effects  of  the  s*^  Pirates  be  Secured  Soe  that  they  May  here- 
after be  disposed  of  as  Shall  be  by  Law  determined 

And  for  all  other  Pirates  that  May  be  Seized  in  our  s*^  CoUony 
of  Virg'a  for  the  future  OUR  will  and  Pleasure  is  that  if  you 
Judge  by  the  Circumstances  of  any  Particular  Case  and  by  the 
Laws  in  force  and  disposition  of  the  People  in  our  Said  Collony 
of  Virginia  that  such  Pirates  may  be  more  Speedyly  and  Effec- 
tually Brought  to  Punishm*  there  then  by  Sending  them 
heither,  you  take  Care  in  all  Such  Cases  that  they  be  Tryed 
thire  and  punished  according  to  the  Sentences  that  Shall  be 
given  but  if  you  Judge  otherwise  by  the  disposition  of  the  people 
or  by  defects  in  the  Law  there  or  other  Circumstances  you  are 
to  Send  them  hither  in  Maner  afores*^  And  in  both  Cases  OUR 
WILL  and  PLEASURE  is  that  you  take  such  Care  that  thire 
Goods  &  Effects  be  Secured  Soe  that  they  May  be  forth  Come- 
ing  to  be  disposed  off  according  as  the  Law  shall  directe  and  Soe 
wee  Bid  you  farewell  given  at  o''  Court  at  Kinsington  y^  Tenth 
day  of  ffebruary  1699  in  the  Eleventh  Year  of  o'  Reign. 

By  his  Maj*"*  Comands 
Vernon 

To  our  Trusty  and  well  Beloved  ffrancis  Nicholson  Esq' 
Lieu*  and  Gov'  Generall  of  our  Collony  and  Dominion  of  Vir- 
ginia in  America  or  our  Comander  in  Chief  of  our  Said  Collony 
for  the  time  being. 

Virginia. 


Commission  of  Robert  Carter  and  John  Custis  as  Coun- 
cillors 

William  R. 
Trusty  and  well  Beloved  wee  greet  you  well. 
Whereas  wee  have  Reced  a  good  Character  of  the  Loyalty 


COUNCIL  PAPERS.  181 

Integrity  and  Ability  of  our  Trusty  and  well  Beloved  Robert 
Carter  and  John  Custis  Esq"  wee  have  thought  fitt  hereby  to 
Signify  our  will  and  Pleasure  to  you  and  accordingly  OUR  will 
and  pleasure  is  that  forthwith  upon  Receipt  hereof  you  Cause  the 
s<*  Robert  Carter  and  John  Custis  to  be  Swome  of  the  Councill 
of  o""  Collony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  and  for  Soe  doeing  this 
Shalbe  yo"^  warr*.  AND  Soe  wee  Bid  you  farewell  Given  at  o' 
Court  at  Kinsington  the  26*''  day  of  December  1699  In  the  Elev- 
enth Year  of  o'  Reign. 

By  his  Majesties 
Command. 

Jersey. 

M'  Nicholson  Cover ■■  of  Virginia. 

To  our  Trusty  and  well  Beloved  ffrancis  Nicholson  Esq' 
our  L*  and  Governor  and  Comander  In  Cheif  of  our  Colony 
and  Dominion  of  Virginia  in  america  and  to  our  Cheife  Gov' 
or  Governors  there  for  the  time  being. 


Proclamation  in  Regard  to  huguenots 

William  R. 

Trusty  and  well  Beloved,  wee  Greet  you  well. 

Whereas  y*  Marquis  de  La  Muce  Monseitir  de  Sailly,  and 
Severall  other  french  Protestant  Refugiez  have  by  their  peti- 
tion htmibly  Craved  our  Leave  to  Settle  themselves  In  Norfolk 
County  In  Virginia  und''  yo""  Government  and  whereas  wee  are 
graciously  pleased  to  afford  them  y°  s'^  Refugeiz  all  reasonable 
Countenance  and  Assistance  In  ord''  to  further  and  facilitate 
these  Settlements  there  accordingly  Wee  Do  hereby  Will  and 
Require  you  upon  their  arrivall  there  to  give  them  all  possible 
Incouragem*  by  granting  unto  them  such  Tracts  of  Land  as 
usual  to  new  Comers  In  y^  Province  and  giveing  them  Such 
further  Assistance  in  Settleing  their  famaUes  and  promoteing 
their  Endeavours  In  planting  as  may  be  reasonable,  And  So 
wee  bid  you  farewell. 


182  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Given  at  our  Court  at  Kensington  y«  18*''  day  of  March  17  Vo*. 
In  y*  Twelfth  Year  of  our  Reign. 

By  His  Maj*y«  Comand 

Jersey 

To  y*  Cover'"  of  Virginia. 

To  our  Trusty  and  Well  Beloved  ffrancis  Nicholson  Esq'  our 
Lie*  Cover'  and  Comand'  In  Cheif  of  our  Colony  and  Dominion 
of  Virginia  in  a  Merica  or  to  Our  Cheif  Cov'or  Gov'*  there  for 
the  time  being. 


Proclamation  in  Regard  to  Huguenots 

Whitehall  Aprill  y«  12t''  1700. 
S' 

His  Majesty  haveing  been  Graciously  Pleased  upon  our  himi- 
ble  representation,  by  a  Letter  und'  his  Royall  Sign  Manuall 
to  require  you  to  give  all  possible  Incouragem*  to  y®  Marquis 
De  La  Muce  Monseiur  De  Sailly  and  other  french  protestants  in 
their  Design  to  Settle  in  Virginia  and  those  Gentlemen  being 
now  about  to  Embark  themselves  wee  Can  Do  no  Less  than  re- 
comend  them  to  your  favourable  Assistance  Upon  their  Arrivall 
there  In  order  to  their  Intended  Settlement. 

In  our  Letter  of  y*  fourth  of  January  Last  wee  writ  you  our 
thoughts  upon  a  proposall  made  by  y^  Earle  of  Bellomont  for 
opening  a  new  Trade  w*^  some  Western  Indians ;  and  his  Lord- 
ship haveing  since  Informed  us  y*  Some  of  those  Indians  had 
Killed  and  Scalped  five  of  y^  New  York  Indians,  Called  Gene- 
vas, wee  think  it  y®  more  necessary  y*  y'u  use  yo'  Endeavours, 
In  Concert  w**'  y*'  Cover'  of  Maryland  to  Settle  Some  trade  or 
Intercourse  w*^^  those  Indians  In  order  for  the  preventing  of 
any  Such  Like  Mischief  for  the  future. 

And  whereas  thee  Earle  of  Bellomont  has  upon  that  Occasion 
Desired  us  to  procure  his  Maj*'*  Leave  y*  he  may  have  a  meet- 
ing wt^  y'u  and  Coll.  Blackiston  Philadelphia,  Wee  by  his 
Maj*'^  Ord'  Signified  to  his  Lordship  and  do  y''  Same  now  to 
you,  y*  his  Maj*'*  Is  Pleased  to  approve  of  y^  proposed  meet- 


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ng  and  Gives  Leave  Accordingly  that  it  be  wherever  you  shall 
agree  amongst  your  Selves.     So  wee  bid  you  heartily  farewell. 

YouT  Very  Loveing  ffriends. 


Wee  Desire  you  to  forward 
y°  Inclosed  Letter  to  ffrancis 
Nicholson  Esq' 


Stanford 
Lexington 
Ph:  Meadows 
William  Blathwayt 
John  Pollexfen 
Abr.  Hill 
George  Stepney. 


(to  be  continued") 


184  VIRGINIA    HOSTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 


PENSION  DECLARATION  OF  MAJOR  THOMAS  MASSIE. 


[Thomas  Massie,  son  of  William  Massie  of  New  Kent  County, 
bom  August  22,  1747,  is  stated  by  Heitman  to  have  been  Captain  6th 
Virginia,  March  11,  1776,  Major  11th  Virginia,  February  20th,  1778, 
transferred  to  2d  Virginia,  September  14,  1778,  resigned  June  25th,  1779. 
About  1780  he  removed  from  New  Kent  County  to  Frederick,  and  thence 
about  1803,  to  Amherst  (now  Nelson)  County.  He  married  Sarah 
Cocke,  of  "Bremo,"  Henrico  County,  and  died  at  his  residence,  "Level 
Green,"  February  2,  1834.  He  had  three  sons  who  have  many  descend- 
ants. One  of  them  was  the  lamented  Judge  Thornton  L.  Massie.  For 
an  account  of  Major  Massie's  descendants  see  The  William  and  Mary 
Quarterly  XV,  125-129.  Unfortunately  the  first  page  of  the  copy  of  the 
declaration,  sent  to  this  Society  a  number  of  years  ago,  has  been  lost.] 


burg  and  the  country  between  York  and  James  Rivers,  against 
the  depredations  of  Lord  Dunmore  and  his  myrmidons.  With- 
in the  ensuing  Fall,  he  received  a  captain's  commission  to  re- 
cruit a  company  of  Regular  soldiers  to  serve  in  the  6th  Va. 
Reg.  of  the  line  on  continental  establishment.  His  Company, 
being  recruited  at  the  commencement  of  the  following  Spring, 
he  marched  it  to  Williamsburg,  and  united  with  the  said  6th 
Regt.,  then  under  command  of  Cols.  Buckner  and  Elliot,  and 
Major  Hendricks.  All  the  companies  were  nearly  complete, 
some  he  believes,  quite  so,  viz., — Capt.  Samuel  Cabell,  Lieu- 
tenants Barrett  and  Taliaferro,  and  Ensign  Jordan;  Capt. 
Ruffin,  two  lieutenants  and  ensign;  Capt.  Johnson,  two  lieu- 
tenants and  ensign;  Capt.  Hopkins,  ditto;  Capt.  Garland,  ditto; 
Capt.  Cocke,  ditto;  Capt.  Oliver  Towles  (a  celebrated  lawyer) 
and  company  officers;  Capt.  Gregory,  ditto.  He  believes 
Capt.  Worsham,  or  Dun  and  Avery.  Also  himself  (Capt. 
Massie),  Lieutenants  Hockaday  and  Epperson,  and  Ensign 
Armistead.  The  companies  were  raised  in  different  and  dis- 
tant parts  ot  the  state  and  he  had  not  even  personal  acquaint- 
ance with  many  of  them,  which,  together  with  the  length  of  time, 
renders  it  difficult  for  him  to  remember  every  officer's  name. 
After  the  Regiment  was  equipped  and  armed,  it  marched  out 
and  camped  in  the  vicinity  of  Williamsburg  where  it  entered 


MASSIE   PENSION   CLAIM.  185 

into  camp  and  military  training;  whence  his  regiment  was 
ordered  to  march  to  the  North.  Within  the  summer  following 
this  was  done  imder  the  command  of  Col.  Buckner,  and  Major 
Hendricks  (Lieu-Col.  Elliot  having  withdrawn).  Capt.  Ruffin 
died  and  he  believes  another  officer,  and  several  resigned  or 
or  withdrew.  The  regiment  marched  through  Virginia  by  way 
of  Fredericksburg  and  the  Northern  Neck,  through  the  upper 
part  of  Maryland  into  Pennsylvania  by  way  of  Lancaster,  leaving 
Philadelphia  to  the  right,  crossed  the  Delaware  River  above  Tren- 
ton, and  passed  through  Jersey  to  Perth  Amboy,  where  the  regi- 
ment was  posted  to  defend  that  point  and  the  country  around  un- 
til fiirther  orders.  Gen.  Washington  at  that  time  having  the 
greater  part  of  the  main  American  army  on  Long  and  York  Is- 
lands, soon  after  the  defeat  of  that  army  on  those  islands,  he  with 
his  said  Regiment  was  to  march  up  the  Sound  byway  of  Newark. 
The  storm  and  capture  of  Fort  Montgomery  taking  place,  he 
met  with  Gen.  Putnam  at  Newark,  and  marched  up  the  North 
River  as  high  as  Fort  Lee.  The  defeated  army  had  crossed  the 
Hudson,  except  a  part  that  had  marched  on  the  east  side  of 
that  river  imder  the  command  of  Gen.  Chas.  Lee,  He,  the  said 
Thomas  Massie,  fell  in  the  rear  of  those  retreating  troops  who 
had  been  appointed  to  cover  their  retreat  and  marched  the  up- 
per road  by  Springfield,  Scotch  Plains,  &c.  to  New  Brunswick, 
on  the  Raritan  River,  where  the  troops  to  which  he  was  attached 
were  attacked  by  the  British  van.  Having  destroyed  a  part 
of  the  bridge,  the  said  American  troops  kept  up  a  hot  fire  with 
their  artillery  and  small  arms,  with  the  British  the  whole  day. 
This  checked  the  progress  so  much  as  to  enable  Gen.  Washing- 
ton to  cross  the  Delaware  River  with  the  retreating  army, 
military  stores  &c.  The  troops  to  which  he  was  attached  (be- 
ing unincumbered)  also  had  the  good  fortune  to  cross  the  Dela- 
ware without  much  loss.  Gen.  Washington  having  refreshed 
the  troops  and  received  reinforcements  recrossed  the  Delaware 
in  the  night  of  the  24th  of  December  (he  thinks),  surprised 
and  defeated  a  large  body  of  Hessians,  posted  at  Trenton,  cap- 
tured about  900  of  their  number,  and  crossed  the  River  again 
with  them.  Several  days  subsequent.  Gen.  Washington,  hav- 
ing received  reinforcements,  again  crossed  the  Delaware  River 
with  his  army  and  took  post  at  Princeton. 


186  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

He,  the  said  Massie,  was  for  the  two  succeeding  years  gener- 
ally employed  on  detached  or  particular  service,  consequently 
was  seldom  with  the  said  Sixth  Regiment  or  his  company, 
which  company  was  by  this  time  much  reduced.  On  the  1st 
day  of  January,  1777  he  marched  under  the  command  of  Gen. 
Scott  (who  headed  a  considerable  body  of  troops)  on  or  about 
the  Princeton  road  and  encamped  in  the  evening  on  the  Heights 
above  Maiden-head.  Soon  after  the  van  of  an  army  under 
the  command  of  Lord  Comwallis  appeared,  followed  by  the 
main  body,  said  to  amount  to  12,000  men,  and  encamped  in 
the  place  for  the  night.  By  dawn  of  the  next  day  the  enemy 
were  in  motion  and  filed  off  in  columns  to  the  American  left, 
apparently  to  surroimd  them.  The  Americans  discharged  two 
light  field  pieces  of  artillery  at  them,  without  return,  and  re- 
treated down  the  road  to  a  creek,  which  they  crossed  over  a 
bridge  and  destroyed  the  same,  and  took  possession  of  the 
ground  on  the  Trenton  side  of  the  creek,  then  covered  with 
large  forest  trees.  Gen.  Hard  at  that  time,  being  above  with 
a  large  corps  of  Western  Pennsylvania  riflemen,  the  Americans 
kept  the  enemy  at  bay  for  several  hours  (he  believes)  before  he 
could  effect  the  passage  of  the  creek  with  his  large  and  heavy 
artillery.  The  Americans  retreated  up  and  slowly  along  the 
road  to  the  siunmit  of  a  hill  also  covered  with  forest  trees. 
Here  Gen.  Washington,  accompanied  by  Gen.  Green  with  re- 
inforcements, come  up.  Here  the  Americans  also  skirmished 
(a  considerable  time)  with  the  enemy  before  they  retreated, 
and  ultimately  retreated  to  a  long  hill  perhaps  a  mile  to  the 
west  end  of  Trenton  in  view  of  the  main  American  Army. 
Here  they  formed  and  awaited  the  attack  of  the  enemy.  The 
day  being  now  very  far  spent,  the  enemy  appeared  and  ap- 
proached the  Americans  in  columns.  As  they  were  displaying 
we  gave  them  a  fire  in  single  file  from  right  to  left,  and  retreated 
under  a  heavy  fire  of  musketry  and  artillery,  and  formed  tmder 
the  protection  of  the  main  army  in  Trenton.  A  very  heavy 
cannonade  ensued  directly  between  the  two  armies  that  lasted 
until  after  dark  and  has  been  called  the  cannonade  of  Trenton. 
Gen.  Washington,  having  fortunately  gained  a  grand  point  in 
eluding  Cornwallis'  intention  of  bringing  him  into  a  general 


MASSIE    PENSION   CLAIM.  187 

action,  made  up  large  fires  in  front  and  left  those  who  had  been  in 
the  van  during  the  day  to  keep  them  up.  He  immediately 
marched  with  his  anny,  and  taking  the  Princeton  road,  reached 
that  place  eariy  the  next  morning,  defeated  Col.  Mahood,  who 
Lord  Comwallis  had  left  there  with  troops  to  defend  the  place 
and  its  stores.  Gen.  Washington,  having  taken  off  those  stores 
&c.,  proceeded  down  the  road  by  Kingston  and  Somerset  Court 
House  to  Morristown,  where  he  established  posts  on  the  Raritan 
in  Jersey,  viz.,  at  Perth  Amboy,  Bonnontown  and  Brunswick. 
Gen.  Washington  also  established  a  Hne  of  posts  opposite  to 
them  with  a  view  of  preventing  the  British  garrisons  from  hav- 
ing intercourse  with  and  marauding  the  country.  He,  the 
said  Massie,  was  placed  on  this  duty  at  Middle  Post,  Natuchen, 
under  the  command  of  Col.  Hendricks,  and  served  on  it  near 
five  months.  This  duty  was  extremely  severe  by  night  as 
well  as  by  day,  constant  patrolling,  frequent  skirmishes,  some 
of  them  very  bloody  nocturnal  surprises,  the  cutting  off  of 
pickets  etc.,  always  attended  with  loss  of  men,  and  great  fatigue. 
The  British  called  in  their  posts  about  the  first  of  Jime  and  the 
American  Posts  were  evacuated  about  the  middle  of  June.  He, 
with  the  other  officers  &c.  who  had  been  in  this  line  of  duty 
joined  the  main  army  at  Middlebrook.  Sometime  after,  he 
and  five  other  officers  were  sent  to  Virginia  with  instructions. 
He,  on  his  return,  joined  the  army  under  Gen.  Washington  at 
the  White  Marsh  Hills.  Shortly  after.  Gen.  Morgan  returned 
with  troops  from  the  capture  of  Burgo^me's  army.  Our  army 
then  marched  into  winter  quarters  by  way  of  the  gulf  to  Valley 
Forge.  He  was  soon  detailed  on  duty  under  Gen.  Morgan, 
who  was  to  take  post  at  Radnor  about  half  way  between  Valley 
Forge  and  the  mouth  of  the  Schuylkill  River,  with  a  view  to 
cutting  off  the  communication  of  the  enemy  from  that  part  of 
the  country  which  was  effected.  About  this  time  (Feb.  1778) 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major.  In  the  Spring  he  com- 
manded a  large  guard  low  in  the  lines  not  far  above  Philadel- 
phia. Here  he  received  Lord  Cathcart,  Aide  to  Gen.  Clinton, 
with  a  fiag  of  truce  and  dispatches  for  Congress.  Agreeably 
to  orders,  he,  Cathcart,  was  not  permitted  to  proceed  further. 
The  dispatches  were  read  and  delivered  to  Gen.  Morgan.     Im- 


188  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

mediately  after,  Gen.  Clinton  evacuated  Philadelphia.  He 
(Massie)  marched  imder  Gen.  Morgan,  through  the  city,  pro- 
ceeded up  and  crossed  the  river,  and  united  with  the  main 
army.  He  with  Major  Gibbs  was  detailed  to  attend  Gen. 
Morgan,  who  was  appointed  to  command  the  light  troops  etc., 
to  interrupt  and  endeavor  to  retard  the  march  of  the  British 
army  through  Jersey  to  Sandy  Hook.  The  first  attempt  to 
retard  their  march  was  made  at  Allentown.  This  stopped 
them  a  day  and  some  prisoners  were  taken.  The  second  at- 
tempt was  a  complete  surprise,  from  thick  shrubbery  in  the 
pines,  where  16  to  18  prisoners  were  brought  off  and  a  few 
killed  with  little  loss  to  the  Americans.  Several  other  attempts 
were  made  to  alarm  and  retard  their  march  which  succeeded 
so  far  as  to  enable  Gen.  Washington  to  march  with  his  main 
army  by  Englishtown  and  obtain  a  position  which  gave  him 
the  power  of  bringing  Gen.  Clinton  to  a  general  engagement, 
in  which  it  is  believed  he  would  have  been  entirely  successful 
except  for  the  flagrant  disobedience  of  orders  by  Gen.  Chas. 
Lee,  who  commanded  the  van  of  the  American  Army.  On 
that,  the  28th  day  of  Jtme,  1778  (an  intense  hot  day)  Gen. 
Washington  ordered  Gen.  Lee  to  attack  in  full  force.  This, 
the  said  Massie,  knows  to  be  the  fact,  the  orders  having  been 
communicated  verbally  by  Gen.  Washington  through  him, 
(the  said  Massie)  the  evening  before.  On  Gen.  Lee's  approach 
the  British  army  drew  up  in  order  of  battle.  Gen  Lee  ordered 
a  retreat  which  was  done  under  a  slow  retreating  fire  for  some- 
time. Gen.  Lee  repeatedly  sent  orders  to  the  officers  com- 
manding the  several  flanking  corps  not  to  advance  and  engage. 
This  state  of  things  continued  imtil  Gen.  Washington  came 
into  the  field  himself,  took  the  command,  arrested  Gen.  Lee, 
and  renewed  the  battle  by  bringing  the  troops  into  action.  The 
battle  at  Monmouth  Court  House  was  a  bloody  and  hard 
fought  action.  After  the  sunset  the  British  army  gave  way,  and 
it  being  too  dark  for  pursuit,  the  American  Army  lay  on  the 
field  for  the  night,  with  a  view  to  renew  the  battle  the  next 
day;  but  the  British  Army  in  the  night,  made  a  silent  and 
rapid  retreat,  leaving  their  dead  and  wounded.  Gen.  Morgan, 
under  whose  command  he,  the  said  Massie  still  acted,  was 


MASSIE   PENSION  CLAIM.  189 

ordered  to  pursue  the  British  early  next  morning,  but  they 
could  not  be  overtaken  except  two  or  three  hundred  stragglers 
that  were  captured.  Pursuit  was  continued  to  Middleton 
Heights  immediately  above  Sandy  Hook.  After  being  there 
and  thereabout  for  several  days,  the  troops  marched  up  by 
Sposwood  to  Brunswick,  bridge  on  the  Raritan  River.  Here 
we  had  a  feu  de  joie  in  honor  of  the  victory  of  Monmouth. 
From  thence  he  marched  to  King's  Ferry  on  the  Hudson  river, 
and  crossed  to  the  White  Plains  in  New  York.  Here  he  re- 
mained several  weeks.  From  there,  he,  with  several  other 
officers,  was  ordered  to  Rhode  Island  to  assist  Gen. 
Sullivan  at  the  siege  of  Newport,  then  in  the  possession  of  the 
British.  A  violent  storm,  however,  with  rain,  etc.  for  several 
days  having  driven  Coimt  D'Estrey's  fleet  from  the  mouth  of 
the  harbour  out  to  sea,  rendered  it  impracticable  for  Gen. 
Sullivan  to  proceed  with  the  siege;  he  consequently  retired 
from  the  island  and  the  said  Massie  with  the  other  officers  de- 
tached as  above  stated  returned  and  rejoined  their  respective 
regiments  then  encamped  on  the  Hudson  some  distance  above 
West  Point,  and  on  the  opposite  side. 

Soon  after  this,  the  stirprise  and  captiu-e  of  Baylor's  newly 
raised  regiment  of  calvalry  near  Heroington,  happened,  when 
he  with  his  regiment  marched  under  the  command  of  Gens. 
Woodford  and  Morgan  with  their  troops  to  that  neighborhood 
and  took  post  on  the  strong  heights  of  Paramus.  By  this 
time  a  large  British  force  (said  to  amoimt  to  6,000)  imder  the 
command  of  Lord  ComwalHs  had  taken  the  possession  of  the 
town  of  Hackensack,  with  a  view  of  foraging  the  coimtry,  in 
which  they  did  not  succeed  to  much  extend,  owing  to  the  vigi- 
lence  of  the  American  troops  in  attacking  and  repulsing  their 
foraging  parties.  In  a  few  weeks  the  British  army  returned 
to  New  York  and  the  said  Massie  with  his  regiment  tmder  the 
command  of  Col.  Febiger  was  posted  at  Hackensack.  Soon 
after  this,  Col.  Febiger  was  called  off,  and  the  said  Massie  was 
left  in  the  sole  command  of  the  Regiment.  This  was  the  second 
Virginia  Regiment  on  continental  establishment.  The  officers 
were.  Captains  Taylor,  Parker,  Calmes,  Catlett,  Stokes,  Ken- 
non,  Gill,  etc.,  etc.,  as  well  as  recollected  at  the  distant  date 


190  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

He  continued  there  until  after  the  middle  of  December,  when 
he  with  his  command  pursuant  to  orders  marched  into  winter 
quarters  at  Boundbrook,  on  the  north  side  of  Raritan  River 
(under  the  command  of  Gen.  Lord  Sterling,  who  commanded 
that  division  of  the  army)  where  he  continued  quietly  for  a  con- 
siderable time.  The  British  were  confined  to  New  York  and 
its  environs  and  employed  in  arranging  and  strengthening  their 
posts  of  defense.  Their  embarcation  of  troops  to  our  Southern 
States  and  other  occturences  demonstrated  the  intention  of 
moving  the  main  seat  of  war  there,  with  a  view  to  attempt 
the  subjugation  of  those  states.  Time  progressing,  it  was 
known  that  Congress  had  determined  to  defend  and  save 
Charleston,  if  possible,  and  that  the  eight  old  Virginia  Regi- 
ments were  doomed  to  that  service.  Those  (8)  Regiments 
were  then  so  much  reduced  in  number  that  they  were  conso- 
idated  into  (?)  Regiments  (March,  1780).  The  officers  whose 
commissions  bore  the  highest  rank,  of  course,  took  the  com- 
mand. The  said  Massie  was  of  consequence  a  supernumerary 
officer,  and,  with  Gen.  Washington's  permission,  returned  to 
Virginia,  holding  his  commission  (which  he  at  this  time  has) 
ready  and  subject  to  duty  with  other  supemimierary  officers 
whenever  called  on  or  required. 

He  ranlced  as  Major  on  the  20th  February,  1778,  but  did  not 
take  his  commission  from  the  war  office  (not  having  leisure  to 
call  for  it)  until  the  20th  March,  1779.  His  commission  as 
captain  was  literally  worn  and  rubbed  out  in  his  pocket  while 
on  duty  from  the  constant  exposure  to  rain,  hail  and  snow  day 
and  night.  He  acted  alternately  under  the  commands  of 
Gens.  Scott,  Weedon,  Sullivan,  Morgan,  Woodford,  Gen.  Lord 
Sterling  &c.,  &c.  He  was  afterwards  under  the  command  of 
Gen.  Nelson  as  Aidecamp  in  the  winter  of  1780  and  1781, 
when  Arnold  invaded  Virginia  and  destroyed  the  public  stores 
and  houses  at  Richmond  and  Arsenal  and  foundry  etc.,  etc., 
at  Westdam  and  was  finally  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,and  the 
surrender  of  that  Post  with  the  British  Army,  in  October,  1781. 

After  the  ratification  of  the  treaty  of  peace,  he  received  five 
thousand,  three  hundred  and  thirty- three  and  a  third  acres 
of  land  in  the  states  of  Ohio  and  Kentucky  (the  patents  for 


MASSIE    PEBSION   CLAIM.  191 

which  he  now  has)  in  consideration  of  his  services  as  Major 
aforesaid.  He  likewise  received  some  three  per  cent  and  six 
per  cent  certificates,  not  worth  much  at  the  time,  afterwards 
sold,  amount  not  recollected.  He  hereby  relinquishes  every 
claim  whatever  to  a  pension  (saving  and  excepting  his  right 
to  half  pay  up  to  1831,  the  claim  to  which  he  intends  prosecut- 
ing before  Congress)  and  he  declares  that  his  name  is  not  on  the 
pension  roll  of  any  Agency  in  any  state. 

(Signed)     Thomas    Massie,     Sen'r. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  the 
day  and  year  aforesaid. 

(Signed)  Jno.  P.  Cobbs. 

And  the  undersigned  Justice  of  the  Peace  before  whom  the 
foregoing  declaration  is  sworn  to  and  subscribed,  doth  hereby 
declare  it  as  his  opinion  that  the  above  named  applicant  was 
a  Revolutionary  officer,  and  served  as  he  states.  It  is  more- 
over certified  that  the  said  applicant  from  age  and  bodily  in- 
firmity is  unable  to  attend  the  Court  of  the  County  in  order 
to  mal<:e  his  declaration,  not  having  heen  there  (at  the  Court 
House)  for  many  years. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this  day  and  year  first  above 
written.  (Signed)  Jno    P.    Cobbs.     (Seal.) 

Justice  of  the  Peace. 

State  of  Virginia, 

Nelson  County  towit: 

In  testimony  that  the  above  John  P.  Cobbs,  before  whom 
the  foregoing  declaration  was  made  and  sworn  to,  is  and  was 
at  the  time  of  making  the  same  a  duly  and  lawfully  commis- 
sioned magistrate  of  the  County  of  Nelson  and  the  State  of 
Virginia,  and  authorized  to  administer  oaths,  take  acknowledge- 
ments, etc.,  and  furthermore  that  his  name  subscribed  to  the 
foregoing  declaration  appears  to  be  his  usual  signature,  I  have 
hereunto  affixed  my  seal  of  office  and  subscribed  my  name, 
and  qualify  as  clerk  of  the  County  Court  of  Nelson  in  the  State 
of  Virginia,  at  Lovingston,  the  Court  House  of  the  said  County 
of  Nelson,  this  16th  day  of  Feb.  1833. 

(Seal)  Spottswood  Ggxland. 


192  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Virginia  towit : 

I,  John  Floyd,  Governor  of  the  state  aforesaid,  do  hereby 
certify  and  make  known  to  all  whom  it  may  concern  that 
Spottswood  Garland,  whose  name  is  subscribed  to  the  armexed 
certificate  under  the  seal  of  the  County  Coxirt  of  Nelson,  was 
at  the  time  of  subscribing  the  same,  Clerk  of  the  said  Coimty 
Court  of  Nelson,  in  the  State  of  Virginia,  duly  appointed  and 
qualified  according  to  law.  And  to  all  his  official  acts  as  such 
full  faith,  credit  and  authority  are  had  and  ought  to  be  given. 
In  testimony  whereof  I  have  subscribed  my  name  and  caused 
the  great  seal  of  the  state  to  be  affixed  hereunto.  Done  at 
the  City  of  Richmond  the  20th  day  of  February  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord,  one  thousand,  eight  hundred  and  thirty-three,  and  of 
the  Commonwealth  of  the  fifty-seventh. 

(Signed)  John  Floyd. 
(Seal) 
By  the  Governor. 

(Signed)  Wm.  A.  Richardson, 

Sec'y.  Com'th. 

And  Keeper  ot  the  Seal. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  193 


fflSTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  NOTES  AND 
QUERIES. 


BAYLOR  LETTERS. 

(Concluded) 

From  Mrs.  Jane  Hookham  Frere  of  Gould  Square  London  &  Roydon  in 
Norfolk  to  Frances  Norton  Baylor  of  New-Market  in  Virginia. 

August  2nd  1795 

My  dear  Madam, 

Though  I  have  no  particular  intelligence  to  convey 
for  your  amusement,  the  lapse  of  a  year  is  such  a  chasm  in  a  correspond- 
ence that  it  must  be  accounted  on  the  decline  if  it  is  not  reanimated  at 
least  once  in  this  time:  as  I  wish  ours  to  be  preserved,  I  sit  down  though 
without  a  precise  idea  of  any  thing  worthy  your  perusal  to  communicate 
to  endeavor  to  recollect  what  has  occurred  that  you  may  wish  to  be  in- 
formed of.  Only  one  circumstance  of  moment  and  that  a  melancholy 
one  has  happened  in  our  family  since  I  wrote  last  viz.  the  death  of  my 
Brother  Sir  John  Fenn  in  1794  which  is  a  great  loss  to  us  all,  for  his  ex- 
cellent understanding  &  true  friendship  for  us  so  tender  &  so  tried  we 
cannot  hope  or  expect  to  find  in  another.  My  sister  has  been  in  very 
great  dejection  of  mind  but  her  health  is  rather  better  than  formerly, 
and  her  spirits  are  not  a  little  recovered.  She  is  now  at  Malvern  Wells, 
in  Worcestershire  where  she  was  so  kind  as  to  take  my  youngest  Daughter 
Susan  for  a  complaint  of  slight  swelling  in  the  glands  of  her  neck — which 
the  use  of  the  waters  has  nearly  removed. 

I  have  now  only  my  youngest  son  remaining  at  school,  the  fourth 
and  fifth  are  students  at  Trinity  Coll.  Cambridge,  the  sixth  a  Lieut, 
in  the  Royal  Artillery  commanded  by  Marquiss  Comwallis. 

Naming  Cambridge  reminds  me  of  telling  you  or  rather  Mr.  Baylor 
that  we  visited  Mr.  Bond  last  Summer  at  his  new  built  house  at  Wheat- 
ame  in  which  he  seems  most  comfortably  settled  and  had  a  few  months 
ago  the  satisfaction  of  having  the  title  of  Father  added  to  that  of  hus- 
band. Mr.  Frere  answers  for  his  little  son.  I  hope  it  will  live  and  be 
very  good 

The  old  master  at  Caius  Coll.  Cambridge  is  lately  dead,  and  Mr. 
Fisher  who  Mr.  Baylor  remembers,  elected  in  his  room.  His  name  is 
changed  to  Belnard.  I  mentioned  to  you  my  eldest  daughter's*  mar- 
riage to  Sir  John  Orde  once  Governor  of  Dominica — then  capt.  in  the 


194  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Navy,  he  has  lately  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Rear  Admiral  of  the 
White.  Sir  Robert  Laurie  is  now  a  General  &  has  lately  sailed  to  Ger- 
many to  take  command  there  &  will  I  hope  return  safe  with  honour  as 
he  did  from  a  former  campaign  through  a  French  sabre  had  nearly  pre- 
vented the  first  by  a  cut  in  the  temple  though  regarded  not. 

Lady  Lauriet  lives  still  at  Dover. 

We  have  news  of  victory  obtained  by  Admiral  Hotham  in  the 
Mediterranean,  but  as  yet  no  particulars.  We  want  some  counterbal- 
ance to  the  defeat  of  the  Emigrants  at  Quiberon  Bay. 

Mr.  Frere  joins  me  in  kind  respects  to  Mr.  Baylor  yourself  and 
Family  &  Mr.  Geo  and  Daniel  Norton  with  my  dear  Cousin 

Your   very    affectionate    cousin 
J.  Frere. 
Addressed  to 

Mrs  Baylor. 

*-Died  in  1829  leaving  issue,  the  present  Baronet  being  her  son 
From  Burke's  Landed  Gentry. 

f-There  are  at  New-Market  several  letters  from  Lady  Laurie 
who  married  Sir  Robert  Laurie  of  Maxwelton,  head  of  an  old  and  prom- 
inent Scotch  family. 

From  Charles  Frere  to  A.  G.  Baylor  Esq.  of  Petersburg  Va. 
No.  5  Southwick  Place 

Hyde     Park     (London) 
June     28     1872 

Dear  Sir, 

**********  One  of  two  photographs  enclosed  by  Mr.  Frere 
in  his  letter  E.  B.  B.)  is  of  my  nephew  Douglas  Frere  the  only  son  of  my 
eledest  brother" Hatley  who  was  a  judge  in  India  but  died  at  an  early 
age  as  I  must  now  consider  it— that  is  between  50  &  60  *  *  *  *  My 
nephew  is  on  his  way  to  the  other  side  of  your  continent,  he  has  passed 
his  examination  for  the  army  and  while  waiting  for  his  commission  is  on 
his  travels  and  might  possibly  be  induced  to  settle  in  the  West.  I  gavg 
your  direction  to  him  in  case  be  should  ever  find  himself  near  you.*  *  *  * 
The  Mrs.  Jane  Frere  whose  letter  you  sent  me  was  my  Grand- 
mother. The  sixth  son  whom  she  mentions  as  being  then  a  Lieut,  in  the 
Artillery  being  my  father  James  Hatley  Frere. 

I  enclose  you  a  certificate  of  the  marriage  of  your  Grand-father  & 
Grand-mother  in  1778. 

Gould  Square  is  in  the  neighborhood  of  Crutched  Friars  &  close 
to  the  Tower  of  London. 

My  cousin  Sir  Bartle-Frere  has  just  edited  the  works  of  my  eldest 
uncle  John  Hookham  Frere,  which  was  prefaced  by  a  life  of  Mr.  Hookham- 
Frere  which,  as  it  mentions  many  members  of  the  family  it  may  be  in- 
teresting to  you  to  read.  ***** 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  195 

The  Susan  Frere  whose  letter  from  Gibralta  you  mention  was 
his  sister  who  accompanied  him  to  Malta  where  he  retired  after  his 
diplomatic  career  was  closed  chiefly  for  the  benefit  of  his  wife  Lady 
Erroll's  health  ******* 

Beleive  me 

Yours  faithfully 

Charles  Frere 

(I  see  in  the  London  Almanac  for  1872,  that  Mr.  C  Frere  holds 
two  positions  one  in  House  of  Lords  and  one  in  the  House  of  Commons) 
A.  G.  B. 


THE  TOWNES  FAMILY. 

Abstract  From  an  Old  Manuscript  that  Records  the  History  of  The 

Townes  Family  of  Virginia.     In  possession  of  Miss 

Claudia  K.  Townes  of  Greenville,  South  Carolina. 

There  were  six  Townes  brothers  who  were  Englishmen.  James, 
John,  Thomas,  Henry,  William  and  Samuel.  Of  these  James,  Samuel 
and  John  came  over  to  Virginia  and  settled  in  Henrico  Co. 

William,  youngest  son  of  James  Townes,  settled  in  Amelia  Co.  on 
the  Appomatox  River.  He  died  in  June  1774,  aged  63,  in  possession  of 
21  negroes  and  a  fine  tract  of  land  on  Roanoak.  He  had  six  sons.  The 
eldest  William,  Thomas,  Henry,  John,  Joseph  and  Halcut.  William 
settled  in  Cumberland  Co.  and  served  sometime  during  the  Revolution- 
ary War.     He  married  Obedience,  daughter  of  Samuel  Allen. 

Thomas  enlisted  in  the  army  in  his  24th  year  in  1776,  served  two 
years  regularly  and  occasionally  afterwards  amounting  in  all  to  five 
years.  The  first  two  years  under  Washington  and  six  months  imder 
Gates.  Was  engaged  in  the  seige  of  Gwynns  Island  against  Dimmore 
under  Lewis.  Was  at  the  seige  of  Norfolk  when  it  was  burned,  and  with 
Wayne  at  Stony  Point.  Was  then  first  Lieutenent  and  wounded  in  this 
battle,  and  also  a  small  skirmish  at  Portsmouth.  He  was  at  the  seige 
of  York  and  saw  Comwallis  give  up  his  sword.  Returned  home  and 
settled  in  Charlotte  Co.  but  moved  to  South  Carolina  In  1793. 

John  enteres  the  army  at  an  early  age.     Went  to  the  North,  was 
engaged  in  several  battles.     Returned  South,  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Charlestown  exchanged  and  returned  to  Philadelphia.     Married  and  be- 
come clerk  of  the  board  of  war. 

Joseph  married  in  Halifax  and  died  in  Mecklinburg. 

Halcut  settled  first  in  Halifax,  moved  to  Danville.  He  married  a 
Coleman  at  the  age  of  25.  Was  a  lawyer  of  considerable  eminence  but 
died  at  the  early  age  of  35.     Was  twice  married. 

Henry  married  and  reared  a  large  family.  He  moved  to  Ken- 
tucky and  lived  to  an  advanced  age.  Henry  and  Halcut  were  both  at 
the  battle  of  Guilford. 


196  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

The  four  sisters  were  Molly  who  married  William  Pride.  Nancy, 
married  Charies  Jones,  Lucretia,  married  Frank  Robinson  and  Elis- 
abeth who  married  Blackman  Ligon. 


Samuel  Allen  Townes,  son  of  William,  married  Rachel  Stokes  of 
Fredericksbury,  in  1799,  and  moved  to  Greenville,  S.  C. 


Some  Virginians  Educated  in  Great  Britain. 

This  list  of  natives  of  Virginia  who  attended  schools  or  colleges  in 
England  and  Scotland  prior  to  1800  is  certainly  very  incomplete;  but 
is  as  full  as  the  sources  accessible  in  Richmond  would  allow.  Foster's 
Alumni  Oxonienses,  of  course,  gives  full  information  for  Oxford,  but  when 
the  matriculation  lists  of  the  Cambridge  Colleges,  of  the  great  schools 
like  Harrow  and  Winchester  (Mr.  Austen-Leigh  has  given  much  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  Eton),  the  London  schools,  the  various  grammar- 
schools  throughout  England,  and  Scotch  schools  and  universities  (other 
than  the  medical  school  at  Edinburgh),  and  admissions  to  the  various 
Inns  of  Court,  have  been  carefully  examined  by  some  properly  equipped 
person,  there  is  no  doubt  that  this  list  can  be  largely  increased.  In  ad- 
dition to  these  institutions  many  Virginia  boys  were  certainly  sent  to 
private  schools  in  England,  which  were  of  note  at  the  time,  but  whose 
records  must  now  be  lost. 

The  list  of  names  follows.  The  Virginia  residence  is  given, 
and  at  least  one  year,  preferably  the  first  year,  of  the  students  residence 
in  the  school  or  college. 

Ambler,  John,  Yorktown,  Wakefield  School,  Yorkshire.  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge,  1753. 

Armistead,  Henry,  Gloucester  Co.,  at  school  in  England,  (place 
unknown)  1702. 

Alexander,  Philip,  Stafford  Co.,  Inner  Temple,  1760. 

Atchison,  Walter,  Norfolk,  Middle  Temple,  1771. 

Bland,  Theodrick,  Jr.,  Prince  George,  Wakefield,  1753,  Edinburgh, 
1761. 

Bland,  Richard  (d.  1776),  Prince  George,  Edinburgh. 

Beverley,  Robert,  Essex,  Wakefield,  Trinity,  Cambridge,  1757. 

Beverley,  William,  Essex,  Trinity,  Cambridge,  1781. 

Beverley,  Robert,  Essex,  Mr.  Andrews'  School  at  Highgate,  1784. 

Beverley,  John,  Middlesex,  at  school  in  England,  (place  unknown), 
about  1694. 

Beverley,  Robert,  Middlesex,  at  school  in  England  (place  un- 
known), about  1694. 

Beverley,  Harry,  Middlesex,  at  school  in  England  (place  vinknown) 
about  1694. 

Blair,  John,  Williamsburg,  Middle  Temple,  1755. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES  197 

Blair,  James,  Williamsburg,  Edinburgh,  1761. 

Baylor,  John,  (d.  1774),  King  &  Queen,  Putney  Grammar  School, 
and  Caius,  Cambridge. 

Baylor,  John,  (Jr.),  Caroline,  Putney  Grammar  School  and  Caius, 
Cambridge. 

Brooke,  Lawrence,  Spotsylvania,  Edinburgh,  1776. 

Brooke,  Robert,  Spotsylvania,  Edinburgh,  1777. 

Ball,  William,  Lancaster,  Edinburgh,  1773. 

Ball,  Joseph,  Lancaster,  Grays  Inn,  1720. 

Ball,  Henry  Lee,  Lancaster,  Middle  Temple,  1769. 

Boiling,  Robert,  Chesterfield,  Wakefield,  1756. 

Boush,  William,  Norfolk,  Edinburgh,  1778. 

Byrd,  William,  Charles  City,  educated  in  England  and  Holland, 
1684-1695,  Middle  Temple,  1690. 

Bnmskill,  John,  Caroline,  Appleby  School,  Pembroke,  Cam- 
bridge, 1752. 

Burwell,  James,  York  Co.,  Eton,  1760. 

Burwell,  Lewis,  Gloucester,  Eton,  1725,  Caius,  Cambridge,  1729. 

Burwell,  Lewis,  Gloucester,  Balliol,  Oxford,  1765,  Inner  Temple, 


1765. 


1714. 


Carter,  George  (d.  1742),  Lancaster,  Middle  Temple. 

Carter,  John,  Lancaster,  Mile  End  School,  Trinity,  Cambridge, 


Carter,  John,  "Cleve,"  King  George,  at  school  in  England  (place 
unknown),  1764. 

Carter,  Landon,  "Cleve,"  King  George,  at  school  in  England 
(place  tmknown),    1764. 

Carter,  Robert,  Lancaster,  at  school  in  England  (place  unknown) 
about  1678. 

Corbin,  Francis,  King  &  Queen,  Inner  Temple,  1777,  (stated  also 
to  have  been  at  Canterbury  School  and  Cambridge.) 

Corbin,  Gawin,  King  &  Queen,  Middle  Temple  1756,  Christs, 
Cambridge,  1756. 

Corbin,  Richard  Henry,  King  &  Queen,  St.  Johns,  Cambridge  1794. 

Cary,  Wilson,  Elizabeth  City,  Trinity,  Cambridge,  1721. 

Clayton,  Thomas,  (b.  1701-1739),  Gloucester,  Pembroke,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Westmoreland,  Edinburgh,  1770. 

Downman,  Joseph  Ball,  Lancaster,  Middle  Temple,  1773. 

Eskridge,  Robert,  Westmoreland,  Wood  End  Grammar  School, 
(Scotland?)  1719. 

Fairfax,  William,  Fairfax,  Wakefield,  about  1753. 

Fauntleroy,  William,  Richmond  Co.,  Middle  Temple,  1760. 

Fitzhugh,  Henry,  Staflford,  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  1722. 

Gilmer,  George,  Williamsburg,  Edinburgh,  1761. 

Grifiin,  Corbin,  Richmond  Co.,  Edinburgh,  1765. 


198  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Griffin,  Cyrus,  Richmond  Co.,  Middle  Temple,  1771. 

Griffin,  John,  Augusta  (?),  Edinburgh,  1774. 

Goodwin,  Joseph,  Edinburgh,  1769. 

Gait,  John  M.,  Williamsburg,  Edinburgh,  1770. 

Grymes,  Philip  Ludwell,  Middlesex,  Eton,  1760. 

Grymes,  Jolin  Randolph,  Middlesex,  Eton,,  1760. 

Jones,  Walter,  Hanover,  Edinburgh,  1769. 

Kenner,  Rodham,  (b.  1707),  Northumberland,  St  Bees  Grammar 
School. 

Lee,  Arthur,  Westmoreland,  Eton  1753,  Edinburgh,  Lincoln's  Inn 
1770,  Middle  Temple. 

Lee,  Henry,  Middle  Temple,  1773. 

Lee,  John,  Westmoreland,  Queens,  Oxford,  1658. 

Lee,  George  Fairfax,  Westmoreland,  Christs,  Cambridge,  1772. 

Lee  Richard  Henry,  Westmoreland,  Wakefield. 

Lee,  Philip  Ludwell,  W^estmoreland,  Inner  Temple. 

Lee,  Ludwell,  Westmoreland,  St.  Bees,  1776. 

Lee,  Thomas,  Westmoreland,  at  school  in  England  (place  unknown) 
1776. 

Lee,  Lancelot,  Westmoreland,  at  school  in  England  (place  un- 
known) 1771. 

Lee,  William,  Westmoreland,  at  school  in  England  (place  unknown) 
1771. 

Meade,  David,  Nansemond,  private  school  at  Dalston,  and  Har- 
row 1751. 

Meade,  Richard  Kidder,  Nansemond,  private  school  at  Dalston 
(and  probably  Harrow.) 

Meade,  Everard,  Nansemond,  private  school  at  Dalston  (and 
probably  Harrow.) 

Mason,  Thompson,  Fairfax,  Temple. 

Munford,  Robert,  Mecklenburg,  Wakefield  about  1752. 

McClurg,  James,  Elizabeth  City,  Edinburgh  1770. 

Nelson,  Thomas  Jr.,  Yorkton,  educated  in  England  1752-59  under 
care  of  Bishop  Porteus. 

Nicolls,  Samuel,  Edinburgh  1776. 

Parker,  George,  Northampton,  at  school  in  Bristol  about  1676-79. 

Power,  James,  King  William,  Wakefield,  1757. 

Peyton,  Valentine,  Stafford,  Edinburgh,  1754. 

Page,  Mann,  Gloucester,     Eton  1706,  St.  Johns,  Oxford,   1709. 

Perrott,  Henry,  Middlesex,  Grays  Inn,  1674. 

Randolph,  Peyton  (d.  1776),  Williamsburg,  Middle  Temple. 

Randolph,  (Sir)  John,  Henrico,  Grays  Inn. 

Randolph,  Beverley,  Williamsburg,  Eton,  1762. 

Randolph,  William,  Williamsburg,  Eton  1762. 

Robinson,  Christopher,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1721. 

Robinson,  Christopher,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1723. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES  199 

Robinson,  Peter,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1737. 

Robinson,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1737. 

Robinson,  John,  Middlesex,  educated  in  England  1713  and  under 
care  of  his  uncle  Bishop  Robinson. 

Ravenscroft,  John,  Prince  George,  Edinburgh  1770. 

Skipwith,  Gray,  Mechlenburg,  Eton  1787,  Trinity,  Cambridge, 
1790. 

Spotswood,  Alexander,  Spotsylvania,  Eton  1760. 

Spotswood,  John,  Spotsylvania,  Eton,  1760. 

Scott,  Gustavus,  Prince  Wm.,  Kings  College,  Aberdeen  1765, 
Middle  Temple  1767. 

Scott,  John,  Prince  Wm.,  King's  College,  Aberdeen,  1768. 

Smith,  Thomas,  King  &  Queen,  Trinity,  Cambridge,  1759. 

Steptoe,  George,  Westmoreland.  Edinburgh,  1767. 

Shore,  John,  Prince  George,  Edinburgh,  1777. 

Stith,  William,  Charles  City,  Queens,  Oxford,  1724. 

Skinker,  John,  King  George,  Appleby  1753. 

Span,  John,  Northumberland,  Queens,  Oxford,  1705. 

Tayloe,  John,  Richmond  Co.,  Eton  1788,  St.  Johns,  Cambridge 


1789. 


1773. 


Thacker,  Chichley,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1724. 

Tucker,  St.  George,  Yorktown  (bom  in  Bermuda)  Inner  Temple 


Turberville,  George  Lee,  Westmoreland,  Winchester  1771. 

Tapscott,  James,  Edinburgh,  1765. 

Turpin,  Philip,  Chesterfield,  Edinburgh,  1774. 

Taylor,  Daniel,  New  Kent,  Trinity,  Cambridge,  1724. 

Washington,  Augustine  Sr.,  Westmoreland,  Appleby. 

Washington,  Augustine  Jr.,  Westmoreland,  Appleby. 

Washington,  Lawrence,  Westmoreland,  Appleby,  1722. 

Wormeley,  Ralph,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford  1665. 

Wormeley,  Ralph,  Middlesex,  Eton  1757,  Trinity,  Cambridge. 

Wormeley,  Ralph,  Middlesex,  at  school  in  England  (place  un- 
known) 1702. 

Wormeley,  John,  Middlesex,  at  school  in  England  (place  unknown) 
1702. 

Warner,  Augustine,  Gloucester,  Merchant  Taylors,  Londen,  1658. 

White,  Alexander,  Frederick,  Inner  Temple,  1762. 

Yates,  Bartholomew,  Middlesex,  Brasenose,  Oxford,  1695. 

Yates,  Bartholomew,  Middlesex,  Oriel,  Oxford,  1732. 

Yates,  Robert,  Middlesex,  Oriel.  Oxford,  1733. 

A  number  of  the  persons  included  in  this  list  also  studied  at  Wm. 
and  Mary.  The  counties  most  numerously  represented  were  Westmore- 
land, 19,  and  Middlesex,  17. 


200  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Sir  John  Zouch 

In  Volume  XII,  pages  87  and  88,  July,  1904,  you  gave  an  abstract 
of  the  Will,  dated  30  August,  1636,  and  proved  4  December,  1639,  of  Sir 
John  Zouch,  and  in  a  note  you  made  him  to  be  the  same  Sir  John  who  was 
knighted  at  Belvoir  Castle  23  April,  1603,  and  who  in  1605  made  the 
agreement  with  Captain  George  Weymouth  for  the  settlement  of  Virginia, 
a  project  which  was  disconcerted  by  the  grant  of  the  Virginia  Company's 
Charter;  and  also  the  same  (and  so  he  was),  who  came  to  Virginia  in  1634 
and  made  a  futile  attempt  to  plant  iron  works  at  Falling  Creek,  below 
Richmond,  and  was  mixed  up  in  the  dissension  between  Governor  Harvey 
and  his  opponents  in  the  Council.  And  in  the  same  Volume,  page  429, 
you  published  a  commtmication  from  me,  in  which  with  other  matter,  I 
expressed  a  belief  that  the  Sir  John  who  visited  Virginia  in  1634  and 
made  the  Will  of  1636-9  was  not  the  same,  but  the  son  of  the  Sir  John 
Zouch  who  came  near,  perhaps,  to  being  the  foimder  of  Virginia  in  1605. 

I  have  since  found  a  confirmation  of  my  belief  in  "The  Berkeley 
Manuscripts — Lives  of  the  Berkeleys,"  by  John  Smyth,  Steward  of 
Berkeley  Hundred,  England.  Smyth,  who  was  himself  an  arms  bearing 
gentleman,  wrote  his  manuscript  history,  which  is  of  the  highest  au- 
thority, in  and  before  1624,  although  it  was  not  published  tmtil  1883,  and 
he  was  well  acquainted  with  the  persons  and  events  of  the  period  in  which 
he  was  writing.  In  Volume  II,  page  402,  he  gives  an  account  of  the  mar- 
riage of  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  his  patron,  Henry,  Lord  Berkeley,  by 
his  1st  wife,  Lady  Katherine  Howard  (3rd  daughter  of  the  poet,  Henry 
Howard,  Earl  of  Surrey,)  on  14  February,  1584,  to  John  Zouch,  Esquire, 
"after  knight,"  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Sir  John  Zouch  of  Codnor Castle, 
Derbyshire,  which  Sir  John — the  father — "dyed  shortly  thereafter," 
and  he  states  that  this  second  Sir  John  Zouch,  who  married  Lady  Mary 
Berkeley,  died  in  the  8th  year  of  King  James  the  First  (1611),  leaving 
a  son  John,  "now  knight,  of  Codnor  Castle, "who  married  Isabel  Lowe, 
of  Denby,  Derbyshire,  "by  whom  hee  hath  issue  John,  Katharine,  Isable 
and  Elizabeth,  anno  1624."  He  gives  further  details,  but  the  above  is 
sufficient. 

There  were  three  successive  Sir  John  Zouches  of  Codnor,,  the  first 
of  whom  married  Elizabeth,  or  Eleanor,  Whalley — of  the  family  to  which 
the  regicide  afterwards  belonged — and  who  died  in  1586  (Will) ;  the  second 
married  Lady  Mary  Berkeley,  was  knighted  at  Belvoir  Castle  in  1603, 
was  the  projector  of  the  Virginia  colony  in  1605,  and  died  in  1611;  and  the 
third  marfied  Isabel  Lowe  in  1607,  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Com- 
pany as  "Mr.  John  Zouch"  and  "John  Zouch,  Esquire,"  in  1621-1623,  and, 
being  knighted  thereafter,  visited  Virginia  in  1634  as  Sir  John  Zouch, 
attempted  to  plant  iron  works  and  was  otherwise  concerned  with  the 
Colony's  affairs,  and  died  in  1639,  leaving  the  Will  which  was  abstracted 
for  the  Magazine. 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES  201 

Everything  relating  to  the  settlement  of  Virginia  has  an  interest, 
and  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  first  Sir  John  Zouch  was  a  com- 
panion in  arms  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  in  Ireland  in  1581-2  (Lives  of  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh,  Annals  of  Ireland  by  the  Four  Masters,  .where  the  name 
appears  as  "Siuitsi",  &c.).  and  that  Raleigh  was  a  prisoner  in  the  Tower 
in  1605,  but  receiving  visitors  and  with  his  mind  constantly  turned  to  the 
American  Continent;  and  so  it  may  well  be  that  the  settlement  project 
of  Sir  John  Zouch,  the  son  of  his  old  companion,  was  suggested  by  this 
ardent  colonizer,  or  had  his  counsel. 

Codnor  Castle  is  now  a  ruin,  and  a  much  pillaged  one  for  stone, 
but  what  is  left  of  it  is  still  shown  to  visitors,  as  it  was  to  another  Amer- 
ican descendent  of  the  Sir  John  Zouches  a  few  years  ago. 

McHenry  Howard, 

901  St.  Paul  St.,  Baltimore, 
9  January,  1913. 


Militia  Officers,  Prince  Edward  County,  1777-1781. 

From  an  examination  of  the  Order  Books  of  Prince  Edward  County 
Court,  it  appears  that  the  officers  listed  below  were  appointed  and  com- 
missioned, from    May  1777  through  December   1781.     Several  items 
throw  light  on  the  status  before  1777: 
May,  June,  and  July  1777 — 

Josiah  Chambers,  John  Bibb,  David  Walker,  Captains;  Charles 
Allen,  Jacob  Woodson,  John  Dabney,  Lieutenants;  Benjamin  Allen, 
James  Carter,  Richard  Holland,  Engsins  [p.  512]  Robert  Goode,  William 
Wooton,  2nd  Lieutenants;  William  Rice,  Ensign;  Henry  Young,  gent; 
2nd  Lieutenant,  Captain  Chambers'  Company  [p.  515]  Andrew  Baker, 
Captain;  Sharpe  Spencer,  1st  Lieutenant  [p.  516] 

July  1777 "Jacob  Woodson,  John  Watson,  John  Clarke,  Robert 

Goode,  Thomas  Floumoy,  William  Bibb,  Philemon  Holcombe,  and 
William  Booker,  gentlemen,  are  appointed  to  make  a  tour  of  this  County 
to  administer  the  oaths  of  allegiance  as  directed  by  Act  of  Assembly. 
Robert  Goode  and  John  Clarke  to  take  the  bounds  of  Captain  Clarke's 
Company  of  militia  for  their  district,  as  also  Captain  Owen's  and  Captain 
Ligon's  Company. — Thomas  Floumoy  and  William  Booker  to  take  the 
boimds  of  Captain  Biggar's  and  Said  Floumoy's  Company  for  their 

district Philemon  Holcombe  to  take  Captain  Chamber's  Company  for 

his  bounds — William  Bibb  his  own  company  and  the  Academy  [Hampden 

Sidney  College]  John  Watson  and  Jacob  Woodson  the  three  upper 

companies  of  militia  for  their  bounds — each  paying  proper  aetention  to 
such  as  are  not  in  the  muster  rolls",     [p.  515] 

July  1778  John  Bibb,  Captain;  James  Bibb,   1st  Lieutenant; 

John  Dupuy,  2nd  Lieutenant; Biggars,  Jr.,  Ensign;  Yancey  Bailey, 

Ensign.  [P.  1]  Thomas  Lorton,  2nd  Lieutenant,  Chambers'  Company, 
[P.  21 


202  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

September,  1778  'George  Carrington,  gent.,  Captain  of  the- 

militia  in  this  County.'  [P.  4] 

March,  1779  'Richard  Holland  recommended  as  Lieutenant 

of  militia  in  the  room  of  George  Booker.'     [P.  20] 

May,  1779  Williamson  Bird,  Captain  of  militia  in  the  room  of 

Charles   Venable,   resigned. 

Nicholas  Davis,  1st  Lieutenant;  Robert  Venable,  2nd  Lieutenant; 
Sharpe  Spencer,  Captain;  George  Booker,  1st  Lieutenant;  John  Clarke, 
Jr.,  Ensign;  James  Parks,  2nd  Lieutenant;  Jesse  Watson,  2nd  Lieutenant; 
Drury  Watson,  Ensign — Thomas  Haskins  recommended  to  the  gover- 
nor for  Colonel  of  Militia,  George  Walker,  Esq.  [King's  Attorney  before 
1776,  and  attorney  for  the  Commonwealth],  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Thomas 
Flournoy,  Major.  [P.  38].  Thomas  Moore,  Captain;  William  McGehee, 
1st  Lieutenant;  Ambrose  Nelson,  2nd  Lieutenant;  Samuel  Venable, 
Captain;  John  Langhorn,  2nd  Lieutenant;  Thomas  Watkins,  Ensign, 
Captain  Samuel  Venable's  Company  [P.  39]. 

July,  1779  Richard  Holland  appointed  Captain  of  Company 

late  Henry  Walker's;  Jacob  Woodson  appointed  Captain  of  Company 
late  David  Walker's  [P.  47] 

June,  1780  Thomas  Lorton,  Captain;  Jesse  Watson,  1st  Lieu- 
tenant; Drury  Watson,  2nd  Lieutenant;  Dick  Holland,  Captain;  Jacob 
Woodson,  Captain;  William  Price,  Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant;  Stephen  Pettus, 
Ensign;  Joseph  Parks,  1st  Lieutenant;  James  Clarke,  2nd  Lieutenant; 
John  Bell,  Ensign  [P.  79] 

September  1780  William  Booker,  Ensign;  James  Wright,  1st 

Lieutenant    [P.  89.] 

March  1781  'John  Nash,  gentleman  recommended  to  his  Ex- 
cellency the  governor  to  be  County  Lieutenant  of  this  County,  George 
Walker,  Esqr,  Colonel,  Thomas  Flournoy,  Esqr.,  Lieutenant  Col°,  and 
John  Clarke,  Esqr,  Major.  [P.  96] 

September  1781  Philip  Matthews,  Ensign;  Nathaniel  Allen, 

2nd  Lieutenant;  Robert  Walton,  Ensign;  John  Richards,  1st  Lieutenant; 
George  Pulliam,  2nd  Lieutenant;  George  Foster,  2nd  Lieutenant;  Peyton 
Glenn,  Ensign;  Stephen  Neal,  Captain;  William  Wooton,  1st  Lieutenant; 
John  Clarke,  Jr.,  2nd  Lieutenant;  James  Clarke,  Captain;  James  Parks, 
1st  Lieutenant;  John  Bell,  2nd  Lieutenant;  William  Galispie,  Ensign, 
'all  officers  of  the  militia  sworn'.  [P.  99] 

December  1781  Ambrose  Nelson  appointed  Captain  in  the 

room  of  John  Bibb.  [P.  102]. 

General  Robert  Lawson,   of  Prince  Edward  County, 

doubtless  took  many  Prince  Edward  soldiers  with  him  to  Guilford  Court 
House. 

Alfred  J.  Morrison, 

Hampden  Sidney,  Va. 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES  203 

Family  of  Isaac  Coles  and  Eliza  Lightfoot. 

Isaac  Coles,  son  of  John  Coles  and  Mary  Winston,  his  wife,  was 
bom  in  Richmond,  Virginia  Feb.  25,   1747, — married  Eliza  Lightfoot 

April  1,   1771  and  Catharine  Thompson,  his  2nd  wife,  Jan.  2,  1790 

was  Colonel  of  his  County, — a  member  of  the  First  Congress  of  the  U.  S., 
— lived  as  an  agriculturalist,  first  in  Halifax  and  then  in  Pittsylvania,  in 
which  County  he  died  June  2,  1813. 

Eliza  Lightfoot,  daughter  of  William  Lightfoot  of  Sandy  Point 
and  Mildred  Howell,  his  wife, — married  Isaac  Coles  April  1,  1771, — and 
died  July  27,  1781. 

John  Coles,  their  1st  son,  was  bom  Oct.  20,  1772  and  died  May  17, 
1796. 

Isaac  Coles,  their  2nd.  son,  was  bom  Dec.  16,  1777,  married 
Lightfoot  Carrington  Feb.  7, 1811  and  died  Sept,  28, 1820.     (  ) 

Lightfoot  Coles,  their  daughter,  was  born  June  12,  1780  and  died 
Dec.  4,  1781. 

Family  of  Isaac  Coles  and  Catharine  Thompson,  his 
Second  Wife. 

Catharine  Thompson,  daughter  of  James  Thompson,  a  native  of 
Ireland  and  resident  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  Catharine  Walton,  of 
of  the  same  city,  his  wife,  was  born  April  16,  1769, — married  Isaac  Coles 
then  a  member  of  Congress,  Jan.  2,  1790,— died  July  18,  1848. 

Walter  Coles,  their  1st.  son,  was  bom  Dec.  8,  1790, — married 
Lettice  Priscilla  Carrington  April  5,  1821.     (  ) 

Catharine  Coles,  their  1st.  daughter,  was  bom  Oct.  24,  1792  and 
died  Feb.  25,  1794. 

Catharine  Thompson  Coles,  their  2nd.  daughter,  was  bom  Feb.  10, 
1795,— married  Baldwin  M.  Payne  Sept.  6,  1827.     (  )  died 

July   1.    1850. 

James  Thompson  Coles,  their  2nd,  son,  was  bom  Jan.  9,  1797, — 
died  May  28,  1838. 

John  Coles,  their  3rd.  son,  was  bom  April  26,  1799, — married 
Louisa  Woodson  Payne  Nov.  24,  1825  (  )  died  August  28, 

1847. 

Robert  Thompson  Coles,  their  4th  son,  was  born  March  15,  1801, — 
married  Eliza  Feam  Patton  Nov.  28,  1827  (  )  died  Jan.  2,  1850. 

Jacob  Thompson  Coles,  their  5th.  son,  was  born  Aug.  1,  1803,  and 
died  August  18,  1807. 

Mary  Coles,  their  2nd.  daughter,  was  bom  Oct.  18,  1805, — mar- 
ried James  M.  Whittle  May  29,  1834  (  )  died  Sept,  5,  1835, 
leaving  a  daughter  (                        ) 

Jacob  Thompson  Coles,  their  6th.  son,  was  born  Jan.  23,  1808, — 
married  Ann  Catharine  Patton  Oct.  28,  1830  (  ) 

[We  are  indebted  to  Rev  Roberts  Coles,  Hamilton,  Va,  for  furnishing, 
in  responce  to  a  request,  the  account  given  above.] 


204  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Brooke,  Corrections  (XX,  435,  436.) 

222  Annie  instead  of  Anne;  225  Prouse  instead  of  Prosise;  191  Nails 
instead  of  Nalle;  223  Alvilda,  instead  of  Alivilda. 


The  Thornton  Bible  at  Ormsby,  Caroline  County,  near  Guinea 
Station,  is  dated  1769,  and  has  these  entries. 

Henry  Fitzhugh  Thornton,  son  of  Anthony  and  Susannah  Thornton, 
bom  July  14,  1765,  married  Ann  R.  Fitzhugh,  Sept.  22,  1785. 

Wm.  Thornton,  bom  Sept.  20th,  1767,  died  Oct.  14,  1783. 

John  Thornton,  born  March  4,  1771,  married  Sarah  Fitzhugh, 
Sept.  17,  1795,  she  bom  July  22,  1779,  died  Feb.  25,  1810. 

John  Thornton  married  "[2nd]"  Jane  Laughlin,  Oct.  22,  1812,  died 
Dec.  22,  1821  ["3rd  wife  Miss  Dade — First  wife  only  one  who  had  chil- 
dren"]. 

Thomas  Griflfin  Thornton,  bom  June  11,  1775,  married  Ann  H[arri- 
son]  Fitzhugh,  Oct.  29th,  1795, 

Anthony  Thornton  son  of  Henry  and  Ann  Thornton,  bom  29th 
July  1786,  baptised  by  Rev.  Robert  Buchan,  had  for  sureties  Mr.  John 
Henry,  George  and  Daniel  Fitzhugh,  Mrs.  Susannah  Thornton,  Mrs. 
Alice  Fitzhugh,  Miss  Fanny  Richards.  Mrs.  George  Fitzhugh. 

Susannah  Fitzhugh  Thornton,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Thorn- 
ton, bom  Oct.  13th  1797,  baptised  by  Rev.  Tredale,  had  as  sureties 
Mr.  William,  George,  Thomas  and  Henry  Fitzhugh,  Mrs.  Mary,  Miss 
Ann  D.  and  Elizabeth  C.  Fitzhugh. 

George  Fitzhugh  Thomton,  bom  May  22nd  1799,  baptised  by 
Rev.  John  Wiley,  Sureties  Mr.  Griffin  Thomton,  Mr.  John  Baylor,  Mr. 
George  Fitzhugh,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Lucy  Burrell,  Mrs.  Ann  H.  Thomton,  Mrs. 
Ann  D.  Baylor,  Miss  Mary  Fitzhugh. 

John  Griffin  Thomton,  bom  Nov.  13,  1800,  baptised  by  Rev. 
Thompson.  Sureties — Mr.  George  Fitzhugh,  Edward  Diggs,  Thomas 
Knox,  Mordica,  Edward  and  Henry  Fitzhugh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Powell, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Fitzhugh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Diggs,  Miss  Sarah  Fitzhugh, 
MissPorcia  Diggs. 

Mrs.  Tompkins  the  present  mistress  of  Crmsly  added  the  com- 
ments in  quotation  marks. 


Members  of  Corbin  Family  Educated  in  England. 

Francis  Corbin  fifth  son  of  the  Hon.  Richard  Corbin  of  Virginia, 
America,  esq.  admitted  to  the  Inner  Temple  23  January  1777. 

[Francis  Corbin,  1760-1820,  of  "Buckingham  House"  Middlesex 
Co.l 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES  205 

Gawin  Corbin  eldest  son  of  Richard  Corbin  of  King  and   Queen 
Cotmty,  Virginia,  America,    esq  admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple  11 
February  1756;  called  to  the  Bar  23  January  1761. 
(Gawin  Corbin,  1738-1779,  member  of  the  Council] 

Henry  Corbin,  son  and  heir  of  George  Corbin  of  Hall  End  co  War- 
wick esq  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  3  May  1611 
[Uncle  of  Henry  Corbin,  the  emigrant) 

Thomas  Corbin  of  Westminster  esq  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  8 
March  161  4-5. 

Thomas  Corbin  second  son  of  George  Corbin  of  Hall  End  co  War- 
wick esq  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  4  March  161  7-8. 
[Uncle  of  Henry  Corbin,  the  emigrant] 

Gawin  Corbin  matriculated  as  a  Pensioner  in  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  from  Christ's  College,  10  April  1756. 
[The  member  of  Coimcil,  above  I 

Richard  Henry  Corbin,  pensioner  St  Johns  College,  Cambridge, 
admitted  Oct  9,  1794 

rR  H  Corbin,  1775-1779,  son  of  Gawin  Corbin  of  Va  (above)  died  un- 
married] 

Henry  Corbin,  of  Co.  Warwick,   arm.  Queens  College,  Oxford, 
Matric.  Nov.  3,  1609,  aged  16;  bar.-at-law.  Grays  Inn  1617  as  son  &  heir 
of  George  of  Hallend,  Co.  Warwick,  esq. 
Same  as  Henry,  of  Grays  Inn,  above- 


Lafayette  Letter. 

Translation  of  a  letter  from  Lafayette  to  Washington,  foimd  among 
the  papers  of  Major  (Lieut.  Col.)  Richard  C.  Anderson,  aide  to  Lafayette. 

"Richmond  2  May 

Mem: 

Had  the  Pennsylvanians  arrived  before  Lord  Comwallis,  I  had 
determined  to  attack  the  enemy,  and  I  do  not  doubt  that  we  would  have 
been  conquerors — their  inexplicable  delay  cannot  be  too  much  deplored 
and  will  exercise  a  great  influence  over  the  fate  of  the  campaign.  If 
they  had  arrived  in  time  to  ^id  me  in  supporting  the  first  onset  of  Com- 
wallis I  would  have  been  satisfied;  but  from  a  reply  of  General  Wayne, 
dated  the  17, th  and  received  to  day,  I  fear  that  at  this  moment  they 
have  hardly  left  York  town." 

(Contributed  by  Edw  L.  Anderson,  Cincinnati.) 


208  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Whitehead-Boykin 
Are  there  any  descendants  who  can  tell  me  the  parents  of  William 
Whitehead  widower  of  Southampton  Co,,  Va,  who  first  married  Patience 
Boykin,  dau'  of  William  Boykin  (d.  1789)  Isle  of  Wight  Co  Va.— and 
secondly  married  in  1790  Mrs  Richard  Lamb,  widow  of  Richard  Lamb, 
Quartermaster  in  Revolution — nee  Clarissa  Boswell,  the  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Elliott)  Boswell  of  Gloucester  Va.  Mr  Hugh 
Blair  Grigsby,  Chancellor  of  William  and  Mary  College  said  the  ancestor 
of  this  William  Whitehead,  came  to  this  country  at  the  time  of  Lieut; 
Governor  Spottswood.  The  family  of  Dr.  Richard  Whitehead,  came  to 
to  this  cotmtry  I  am  told  at  the  time  of  Wesley- 


Crozier — Mr.  William  A.  Crozier  the  well-known  genealogist  died  re- 
cently at  his  residence,  Hasbrouck  Heights,  N.  J.  His  valuable  publica- 
tions, especially  those  relating  to  Virginia  records,  are  familiar  to  all 
investigators  in  this  field.  He  had  in  the  press  at  the  time  of  his  death 
a  volume  containing  abstracts  of  the  wills  of  Westmoreland  County  from 
the  beginning  to  1800.  This  work,  (which  was  ready  with  the  exception 
of  part  of  the  index)  will  be  completed  by  his  widow,  who  resides  at  Has- 
brouck Heights,  N.  J. 


Dickinsons  of  Virginia. 

The  reunion  of  the  Dickinson  Family  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  in  1883,  re- 
sulted in  the  publication  of  a  book  on  the  history  of  the  family.  This 
book  states  that  three  sons  of  Charles  Dickinson  of  London,  Walter, 
Henry  and  John,  came  to  Virginia  in  1654.  It  traces  Walter  into  Mary- 
land and  names  him  as  the  founder  of  the  Talbot  Dickinsons,  who  gained 
distinction  in  political,  military  and  literary  persuits.  It  states  that 
John  moved  into  Pennsylvania,  and  became  the  progenitor  of  a  line  in 
that  state.  And  it  disposes  of  Henry  by  stating  that  he  married  a  Miss 
Jennings,  settled  in  Virginia,  and  became  the  patriarch  of  the  Dickinsons 
of  the  Old  Dominion  and  the  South. 

I  can  find  no  foundation  for  this  last  statement,  although  I  have  been 
informed  of  several  pedigrees  prepared  by  a  genealogist  of  great  reputa- 
tion, which  traces  a  complete  lineage  from  this  Henry  Dickinson. 

I  am  working  on  the  genealogy  of  the  Dickinsons  of  Virginia  with  an 
idea  of  publishing  the  results  of  my  investigation.  If  any  one  can  give 
me  authentic  information  on  this  subject,  showing  the  lineage  of  said 
Henry,  I  shall  certainly  be  glad  to  receive  it.  In  fact,  I  should  be  glad  to 
have  all  descendants  of  Virginia  Dickinsons  send  me  as  much  data  as 
they  possess  regarding  their  ancestry,  in  order  that  I  may  compile  as  full 
account  of  the  family  as  possible. 

Wm.  Elmore  Dickinson, 

Professor  of  Electrical  Engineering, 
West  Virginia  University, 
Morgantown,  W.  Va. 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES  207 

The  International  Congress  of  Historical  Studies  will  be  held 
in  London  April  3-9,  1913. 


Utley. 


"Will  desired  of  John  Utley  of  Goochland  County,  who  was  granted 
land  in  Henrico — Goochland  of  900  acres  in  1725  called  Tuckahoe,  and 
sold  the  same  in  1731  to  Anthony  Hoggatt.  Witnesses  Son  John  Utley, 
Thomas  Cook  son.  What  connection  was  he  to  John  Utlye,  John  Utie 
the  counciller  of  Hogg  Island,  York  Co.,  1620,  and  Ensign  Joseph  Utie 
of  James  Island  1625. ' ' 

Mrs.  Lipscomb  Nowell, 
1628  Franklin  Street, 

Beaumont,  Texas. 

(To  be  Continued.) 


Some  Notes  from  County  Records. 

Will  of  Nathaniel  Knight,  Chirurgeon,  dated  Feb.  18,  1677-8, 
proved  March  5,  1677-8,  no  children,  legacy  to  father  Samuel  Knight 
living  at  Stroodswater,  Gloucestershire  (Eng.) — Surry  Records. 


Deposition  of  Thomas  Portman,  March  1677,  about  matters  oc- 
curring twenty-eight  years  before — refers  to  "Captain  Barrett  father  of 
Mr.  James  Barrett  now  living  in  Virginia" — Surry  Records. 


Deed  Jan.  28,  1679,  from  Col.  John  Dodman  of  Mulberry  Island 
stating  that  some  years  past  he  gave  his  daughter  Susanna  in  marriage 
to  Robert  Marcey  of  Potomac,  and  gave  them  a  tract  of  land  on  Potomac, 
and  they  died  without  issue,  and  he  now  gives  the  land  to  his  daughter 
Margaret  in  marriage  with  William  Appleyard,  of  Mulberry  Island — 
Isle  of  Wight  Records. 


Will  of  George  Hardy,  dated  March  16,  1654.  "I  give  one  thou- 
sand pounds  of  Tobo.  towards  the  building  of  the  Church  in  this  parish 
in  case  it  be  built  with  brick." — Isle  of  Wight  Records.  [What  Isle  of 
Wight  Church  was  this?] 


Edward  Yalden  of  Isle  of  Wight  mentioned  in  1669  or  1670  as  Son 
of  Anthony  Yalden,  of  Winchester,  England. — Isle  of  Wight  Records. 


208  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


GENEALOGY. 


THE  ANCESTORS  AND  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  ROLFE 

WITH  NOTICES  OF  SOME  CONNECTED  FAMILIES. 

(Continued.) 

[Since  this  account  was  prepared  the  compiler  has  been  informed  that 
Mr.  Wilson  Miles  Cary  of  Baltimore,  the  distinguished  genealogist, 
who  spent  sone  time  in  England,  thinks  that  he  has  discovered  that 
John  Rolfe,  of  Virginia,  was  not  a  son  of  John  and  Dorothea  Rolfe,  but 
belonged  to  another  branch  of  the  same  family.  The  proof  is  not  yet 
positive,  but  Mr.  Cary  is  still  having  the  matter  investigated  and  has 
promised  to  give  this  Magazine  the  result  of  his  researches] 

John  Rolfe. 

John  Rolfe  the  son  of  John  and  Dorothea  Rolfe  married  in  Eng- 
land and  sailed  for  Virginia  in  May  1609.  The  ship  in  which  he  came 
was  wrecked  on  the  Bermudas  and  here  a  daughter  was  bom,  who  was 
named  Bermuda  and  christened  Feb  .11, 1609-10.  They  reached  Virginia 
in  May  1610  and  Rolfe's  wife  and  child  had  either  died  at  the  Bermudas 
or  only  lived  a  short  time  after  reaching  Virginia. 

He  became  a  prominent  member  of  the  Colony  and  is  said  to  have 
been  the  first  person  to  suggest  the  cultivation  of  tobacco.  Early  in 
ApHl  1614  his  celebrated  marriage  with  Pocahontas  took  place.  Though 
evidently  greatly  attached  to  her,  he  had  wrestling  in  spirit  (he  had 
much  of  the  Pi^ritanism  so  prevalent  in  the  eastern  counties  of  England) 
before  he  could  make  up  his  mind  to  marry  one  of  heathen  birth. 

He  wrote  to  Governor  Dale:  "Nor  am  I  out  of  hope  but  one  day 
to  see  my  cotmtrie,  nor  so  void  of  friends,  nor  mean  of  birth,  but  there 
to  obtain  a  match  to  my  great  content";  but  love  was  stronger  than  his 
fears.  The  curious  and  interesting  letter  referred  to  is  most  accessible 
in  Meade's  "Old  Churches  &  Families  of  Virginia",  I.  126-129. 

In  1616  Rolfe  and  Pocahontas  went  to  England  and  her  reception 
there  and  the  interest  she  excited  are  well  known. 

They  were  about  to  set  sail  for  Virginia,  on  their  return,  when 
Pocahontas  died  at  Gravesend  and  was  buried  in  the  Church  there 
March  21,  1616-17.     Some  confusion  has  been  caused  by  John  Rolfe's 


POCAHONTAS 
From  a  photograph  of  the  original  portrait 


Negative,  property  of 

Cook,  Fhotographer,  Richmond 


GENEALOGY.  209 

name  appearing  on  the  register  as  "Thomas  Wrolfe;"  but  this  is  no 
doubt  to  be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  he  was  a  stranger  only  at 
Gravesend  to  embark,  and  that  the  clerk  or  rector  made  a  mistake  in 
the  name.  The  Virginia  Society  of  Colonial  Dames  will  at  an  early  date 
erect  a  memorial  to  Pocahontas  in  Gravesend  Church. 

He  tried  to  bring  his  infant  son  Thomas  with  him  to  Virginia; 
but  when  the  ship  touched  at  Plymouth  it  was  obvious  that  the  child 
could  not  stand  the  voyage,  and  he  was  left  there  with  Sir  Lewis  Stukeley, 
until  he  could  be  transferred  to  the  care  of  his  uncle  Henry  Rolfe  of  Lon- 
don. 

On  his  return  to  Virginia  Rolfe  wrote  a  letter  to  Sir  Edwin  Sandys 
dated  Jamestown,  June  8,  1617  in  which  he  speaks  of  his  grief  at  the 
death  of  Pocahontas  and  explains  why  he  had  to  leave  his  son.  This 
letter  was  printed  in  this  Magazine  X  134-1  ?S. 

In  the  year  1617  Rolfe  was  appointed  Recorder  and  Secretary 
General  of  the  Colony,  and  in  1619  was  a  member  of  the  Council.  As  a 
member  of  this  body  he  sat  in  the  first  American  legislature,  the  Virginia 
Assembly  of  1619,  and  is  the  only  member  of  that  Assembly  who  is  known 
to  have  descendants  living  at  the  present  day.  He  married  in  or  before 
1620  Jane,  daughter  of  Captain  William  Pierce  (also  of  the  Virginia  Coun- 
cil) and  had  a  daughter  Elizabeth  bom  1620.  John  Rolfe  died  in  1622 
and  it  is  probable  that  he  was  killed  in  the  great  Indian  Massacre  of  that 
year.  In  addition  to  the  letters  referred  to  Rolfe  was  the  author  of  a 
"relation"  of  events  in  Virginia.  Smith,  Hamor  and  all  of  the  early 
writers  speak  of  him  as  an  honest  and  worthy  gentleman. 

His  will  has  been  published  (in  abstract)  in  Waters'  "Gleanings" 
and    is    as   follows: 

John  Rolfe,  of  James  City  in  Virginia,  Esq.,  dated  10  March  1621, 
proved  May  21,  1630  [in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury]  by  William 
Pyers  [Pierce],  Father-in-law  William  Pyers,  gentleman,  to  have  charge 
of  the  two  small  children  of  very  tender  age.  A  parcel  of  land  in  the 
Country  of  Tappahannah  between  two  creeks  over  against  James  City 
in  the  Country  or  Continent  of  Virginia,  to  son  Thomas  Rolfe  and  his 
heirs,  failing  his  issue  to  my  daughter  Elizabeth;  [The  land  here  be- 
queathed was  no  doubt  the  "Smiths  Fort"  tract],  next  to  my  right  heirs. 
Land  on  Mulberry  Island  Virginia,  to  my  wife  Jane,  during  her  natural 
life  then  to  daughter  Elizabeth.  To  my  servant  Robert  Davies  twent_ 
pounds.  Witnesses:  Temperance  Yeardley,  Richard  Buck,  John  Cart- 
wright,  Robert  Davys  and  John  Milwarde. 

Thomas    Rolfe. 

Thomas  Rolfe,  the  son  of  John  Rolfe  and  Pocahontas  was  bom  in 
Virginia  in  1615  and  was  taken  to  England  by  his  parents.  When  his 
mother  died  and  his  father  returned  to  Virginia,  im  March  1616-17  he 
was  left  at  Plymouth  under  the  care  of  Sir  Lewis  Stukeley,  who  became 


210  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

SO  notorious  and  generally  detested  for  his  treachery  to  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh.  Thomas  Rolfe  was  afterwards  removed  to  the  care  of  his 
uncle  Henry  Rolfe,  of  London,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Com- 
pany. The  boy  remained  with  him  for  a  number  of  years.  On  August 
23rd  1618  the  Virginia  Company  wrote  to  Governor  Argall  in  Virginia. 
"We  cannot  imagine  why  you  should  give  us  warning  that  Opechankano 
and  the  natives  have  given  the  country  to  Mr.  Rolfe's  child  and  that 
they  reseve  it  from  all  others  tmtil  he  comes  of  years."  It  would  ap- 
pear from  this  that  the  Indians  were  supposed  to  have  intended  that 
Thomas  Rolfe  should  succeed  to  the  chieftanship  of  the  Powhatans. 

In  October  1622  Mr.  Henry  Rolfe  petitioned  the  Virginia  Com- 
pany requesting  that  he  be  paid  out  of  the  estate  of  his  brother  John 
Rolfe  for  having  brought  up  the  son  of  his  brother  and  Pocahontas.  In  a 
grant  of  land  in  1635  to  Captain  William  Pierce  the  name  of  Thomas 
Rolfe  appears  among  the  head  rights.  This  probably  indicates  the  time 
that  he  came  to  Virginia.     He  was  then  about  twenty  years  old. 

"He  afterwards,"  says  Stith,  "became  a  person  of  fortune  and 
distinction  in  the  Colony."  In  1641  he  petitioned  the  Governor  for  per- 
mission to  visit  his  aunt  "Cleopatre  and  his  Kinsman  Opecancanough." 
In  1646  as  "Lieutenant  Thomas  Rolfe"  he  was  granted  Fort  Chicka- 
hominy  and  600  acres  adjoining  on  condition  of  keeping  a  guard  there. 
Between  that  date  and  1663  he  patented  a  number  of  other  tracts  of  land. 
There  is  recorded  in  Surry  County,  in  1673,  a  deed  dated  Jime  20,  1654, 
from  Thomas  Rolfe  to  William  Corker,  conveying  120  acres  in  Surry, 
lying  between  "Smiths  fort  old  field"  and  "the  Devils'  Woodyard," 
which  was  the  property  of  Thomas  Rolfe  "by  gift  from  the  Indian  King." 
It  also  appears  from  various  depositions  recorded  in  Surry  that  he  at  one 
time  owned  the  plantation  called  "Smiths  Fort,"  1200  acres,  at  the 
mouth  of  Gray's  Creek  which  he  sold  to  Thomas  Warren.  One  of  the 
deponents  states-  that  he  was  present  in  1654  with  Mr.  Thomas  Rolfe  in 
Mr.  Warren's  "fifty  foot  brick  house"  on  "Smiths  Fort"  plantation  soon 
after  it  was  completed. 

Warren's  "Fifty  foot  brick  house"  is  still  standing,  the  oldest 
brick  dwelling  in  Virginia  to  which  a  date  can  be  assigned.  The  farm 
still  called  "Smiths  Fort"  now  belongs  to  a  prosperous  negro  farmer.  In 
addition  to  the  old  house  there  is  much  of  interest  in  the  neighborhood. 
On  John  Smith's  map  of  Virginia  may  be  seen  at  the  mouth  of  Gray's 
Creek  opposite  Jamestown,  the  inscription  "The  New  Fort".  Smith 
states  that  on  1608  or  1609  he  built  a  fort  as  a  place  of  refuge  in  case  of 
being  compelled  to  retreat  from  Jamestown  "on  a  convenient  river  upon 
a  high  commanding  eminence."  It  has  been  suggested  foolishly,  that 
this  fort  was  the  "Old  Stone  House"  on  Ware  Creek  in  the  upper  part  of 
James  City  County;  but  any  retreat  to  this  place  would  have  been  through 
dense  forests  which  afforded  ample  cover  for  the  Indians.  It  seems 
there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  fort  Smith  refers  to  was  the  "New  Fort" 
on  Gray's  Creek,  and  that  this  was  on  the  "Smith's  Fort"  tract.     About 


REMAINS  OF  EARTHWORKS  AT  SMITH'S  FORT 


VIEW  FROM  THE   BLUFF  AT  SMITH'S  FORT 


GENEALOGY.  211 

a  half  mile  from  the  brick  house  referred  to  is  a  high  bluff,  about  the 
middle  of  a  long  bend  in  Gray's  Creek.  On  the  opposite  side  are  wide 
marshes,  and  ravines  at  the  sides  of  the  bluff  make  it  something  of  a 
promontory.  Across  the  rear  of  the  bluff  traces  of  trenches  can  be  dis- 
tinctly seen,  though  the  covering  of  leaves  makes  them,  in  the  photo- 
graph, less  distinct  than  they  really  are.  There  can  be  little  doubt  that 
we  have  here  the  remains  of  Smiths  "New  Fort." 

Thomas  Rolfe's  wife  is  said  (though  there  is  no  proof  of  the  correct- 
ness of  the  statement)  to  have  been  a  Miss  Poythress,  and  he  had  an  only 
child,  Jane,  who  married  in  1675  Col.  Robert  Boiling  and  died  in  1676. 
Among  the  James  City  records  (now  destroyed)  was  the  following  deed, 
communicated  to  the  "Southern  Literary  Messenger"  by  the  once  well- 
known  Virginia  antiquary,  Richard  Randolph:  "This  Indenture  made 
1st  October  1698  between  John  Boiling  of  the  County  of  Henrico  and 
parish  of  Varina,  Gent,  son  and  heir  of  Jane  late  wife  of  Robert  Boiling, 
of  Charles  City  County,  Gent,  which  Jane  was  the  only  child  of  Thomas 
Rolfe,  dec'd,  conveying  to  William  Brown,  of  the  parish  of  Wilmington, 
in  the  County  of  James  City,  one  thousand  acres  of  land  commonly  called 
the  Fort  on  Chickahonimy  River,  as  per  patent  granted  to  Thomas 
Rolfe  (this  was  Fort  Chickahominy  granted  him  in  1646). 

Thomas  Rolfe  probably  died  in  James  City  County,  so  the  records 
in  regard  to  his  will  death  &c.  have  been  destroyed  along  with  all  the 
records  of  that  County. 

(To  BE  CONTINtmD.) 


THE  TURNER  FAMILY  OF  KING  GEORGE  COUNTY  &c. 
(Continued.) 

7.  Henry  Smith  '•Turner  (Thomas^),  bom  1770,  died  July  18, 
1834,  was  first  of  Westmoreland  County  and  afterwards  of  "Wheatland", 
Jefferson  Coimty;  was  a  Justice  of  Westmoreland  1795,  and  member  of  the 
House  of  Delegates  for  that  Coimty  in  1799  and  1800.  He  married 
first  Lucy  Hopkins  (who  had  no  issue)  and,  secondly,  in  1796,  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Col.  Thomas  Blackburn,  of  "Ripon  Lodge"  Prince  William 
Co. 

Issue:  11.  Thomas  B^.  (of  whom  later);  12.  BushrodW^:,  appointed 
midshipman  U.  S.  N.  1824,  and  was  lost  at  sea  Sept.  30,  1828;  13.  Col. 
George  W^.,  born  1810,  graduated  at  West  Point,  served  as  Second  lieu- 
tenant U.  S.  A.,  was  in  the  Florida  War  and  afterwards  resigned.  He 
was  was  murdered  by  John  Brown's  party  at  Harper's  Ferry,  October  17, 
1859.  Never  married;  14.  William  Fauntleroy^  (of  whom  later);  15. 
Mary,  married — AUibone,  of  Philadelphia;  16.  Jane,  married  Dr.  Byrd; 
17.  Christine  married  Dr.  Cordell;  18.  Catherine,  married  Dr.  Wright 
of  Chicago. 


212  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

8.  Thomas*  Turner,  of  "Kinloch",  Fauquier  Co.,  bom  April 
3rd  1772,  died  Jan.  30,  1839,  Justice  of  King  George  Co.  1798  and  mem- 
ber of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  that  County  1798  and  1799,  removed 
to  Fauquier;  married  at  "Shiriey",  October  2nd  1798,  Elizabeth  Carter, 
daughter  of  Col.  Robert  Randolph  of  "Eastern  View"  Fauquier  County. 
(She  was  bom  Oct.  2nd  1782,  and  died  May  1866.) 

Issue:  19.  Susan  Baynton,  bom  at  "Eastem  View,"  Nov.  24,  1799, 
married  John  Hill  Carter,  of  "Falkland",  (and  had  a  daughter  Jane  who 
married  Robert  Beverley);  20.  Henry  Smith,  bom  Nov.  6.  1800,  died 
in  jnfancy;  21.  Elizabeth  Anne,  bom  Nov.  27.  1801,  died  in  infancy;  22. 
Charles  Cocke^,  bom  at  "Oakenbrow,"  April  11.  1803,  appointed  mid- 
shipman U.  S.  N.  1820,  Lieutenant  Commander  1851;  married  Margaret 
Patterson,  of  Baltimore;  died  March  4,  1861;  23.  Dr.  Robert  Randolph^, 
bom  at  "Oakenbrow,"  Nov.  26.  1804,  married,  1841,  Eleanour,  daughter 
of  William  Taylor,  of  King  William  Co.  (and  had  Eliza*,  who  married 
R.  B.  Puller,  and  Mary  Carter*) ;  24.  Shirley  Carter^,  (of  whom  later)  25. 
Thomas^  (of  whom  later);  26.  William  Fitzhugh  (of  whom  later);  27. 
Henry  Smith  (of  whom  later) ;  28.  Martha  (or  Marietta)  Favmtleroy,  bom 
at  "Cloverland",  Nov.  4,  1812,  married  George  Cuthbert  Powell,  of 
Middleburg  (and  had  issue:  Randolph  married  Anna  Hunt;  Ida,  mar- 
ried Henry  Dulaney;  Kate  married  George  Carter  of  "Oatlands,"  and 
Virginia  married  Charles  Minnegerode,  Jr.,  of  Alexandria,  Va.)  29.  La 
vinia  Beverley  bom  at  "Cloverlands,"  March  5,  1814;  married  Dr.  John 
Fauntleroy;  30.  Edward  Carter**  (of  whom  later);  31.  Caroline  Virginia, 
bora  at  "Kinloch",  March  22.  1818,  died  unmarried;  32.  Elizabeth  Ran- 
dolph, bom  at  "Kinloch,"  May  19,  1819,  married  Nathaniel  Lough- 
borough. 

(To  BE  Continued.) 

THE  BEVERLEY  FAMILY. 
(Continued.) 

(See  XX,  437) 

32.  William"  Beverley  (Robert*)  entered  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
bYidge  University,  April  4,  1781,  at  the  age  of  18.  He  did  not  return  to 
Virginia;  but  made  his  home  at  Beverley,  in  Yorkshire.  He  served  for 
thirty  years  as  a  magistrate  and  deputy-lieutenant  for  the  East  Riding 
of  Yorkshire  and  in  1832  was  appointed  vice-lieutenant. 

He  married  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heiress  (with  her  sister  Anna 
Margaretta,  wife  of  Lord  Grantley)  of  Jonathan  Midgeley,  of  Beverley, 
and  with  her  acquired  a  large  fortime.  Issue:  46.  Robert  McKenzie, 
a  magistrate  and  deputy  lieutenant    for  the  East  Riding  died  in  1868 


GENEALOGY.  213 

without  issue;  47.  Maria  (great  niece  and  sole  heir  of  Anne,  Dowager 
Lady  Denison  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Denison,  judge  of  the  King's  Bench) 
married  in  1814,  Edmimd  Beckett,  M.  P.,  son  of  Sir  John  Beckett,  Bart, 
48.  Anna  Margaretta. 

The  papers  printed  below  were  sent  to  the  Historical  Society  by 
Mr.  Fowler  with  the  letters  published  in  the  last  number. 

Extract  from  a  fragment  of  Mr.  R.  M.  Beverley's  diary  dated  June  1837. 

Amongst  the  papers  which  have  passed  through  my  hands  this 
day  I  find  many  relating  to  the  will  of  my  paternal  grandfather  which 
seems  to  have  been  the  cause  of  much  litigation  &  strife  amongst  his 
numerous  sons  &  daughters — he  died  where  he  had  lived  at  his  vast  es- 
tate of  Blandfield  in  the  county  of  Essex  in  the  state  of  Virginia,  North 
America;  &  it  is  painful  to  see  how  much  of  his  property  was  in  slaves 
[Quotes  a  clause  in  Robt  Beverley's  will,  already  printed] 

Many  other  parts  of  his  will  mention  his  slaves,  he  says  he  has  al- 
ready given  his  son  Robert  Beverley  (his  2nd  son)  sixty  negroes — he 
gives  28  negroes  to  each  of  his  daughters — 

In  codicils  he  says  he  has  given  36  slaves  to  his  son  Carter,  &  36 
to  his  son  Byrd — In  many  passages  he  mentions  his  slaves — sometime 

thus  'my  slaves  &  stock  mules' His  second  son  Robert 

succeeded  in  supplanting  his  elder  brother  my  father  in  the  inheritance — 

My  grandfather  left  my  father  £6000  &  nothing  more,  though  to 
raise  this  sum  slaves  were  to  be  sold  together  with  an  estate — His  second 
son  probably  inherited  estates  of  a  value  not  less  than  £lOO,000:  he  still 
lives  at  the  family  mansion  at  Blandfield — he  has  one  son —  My  grand- 
father was  bom  at  Blandfield,  but  was  sent  to  be  educated  at  Beverley 
Grammar  School  &  Cambridge — 

My  great-grandfather  was  much  in  England,  &  was  educated  at 
Beverley,  but  I  think  bom  in  Virginia,  but  of  this  I  am  not  certain  [He 
was  bom  in  Va] 

My  great  great  grandfather  Robert  Beverley  sold  his  Yorkshire 
estates  &  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  go  to  Virginia  [Incorrect  he  was 
the  2nd  generation].  He  is  the  author  of  that  'History  of  Virginia'  that 
de  Tocqueville  quotes — 

My  grandfather  died  in  1800— Washington  was  a  cousin  of  my 
grandfather — The  Washingtons  came  from  South  Cave  in  Yorkshire — 

In  pursuance  of  the  directions  of  my  grandfather's  will  I  find  the 
following  copy  of  an  advertisement  inserted  in  the  provincial  news- 
papers— 

'Pursuant  to  the  last  will  &  testament  of  the  late  Robert  Beverley 
'of  Blandfield,  will  be  sold  for  ready  money  at  the  Bowling  green 
'on  Tuesday  the  13th  January  1801  being  Caroline  Court,  if  fair; 


214  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

'if  not  the  next  fair  day,  Fifty  Negroes  consisting  of  very  likely 
'middleaged,  young  men,  boys,  young  women  &  children. 
Carter  Beverley 

Only  Acting  Executor' 
Culpepper  County 
8th  Aug.  1800. 

Extract  from  a  fragment  of  a  letter  written  to  Mr.  R.  M.  Beverley 
from  Mr.  Francis  P.  Corbin  from  Paris  during  the  Civil  War  in  America* — 
of  those  of  your  name  I  have  heard  btit  little  lately  as  they  are  for  the 
most  part  in  the  far  South,  but  I  make  no  doubt  all  are  under  arms  that 
can  bear  them.  Our  Cousin  William  of  Blandfield  must  be  near  if  not 
turned  of  70,  &  although  unable  to  help  "manibus  pedibusque"  in  the 
din  of  battle  he  supplies  the  sinews  of  war  in  another  sense — 

His  former  banker  is  now  here  &  tells  me  he  "enjoys  good  health 
&  a  very  ample  estate  for  any  cotmtry — "  He  has  never  married  &  it 
is  supposed  that  he  will  leave  his  property  to  the  son  of  his  brother 
Bradshaw  who  lived  '&  died  near  Winchester  in  Virginia  where  he  too 
had  a  good  estate  &  charming  residence  which  the  enemy  have  not 
spared — 

Mr.  William  Beverley's  estate  partly  inherited  &  partly  increased 
by  his  own  savings  &  investments  was  estimated  before  the  war  began 
at  some  £250000  to  £300000  sterling  or  about  a  million  &  ahalf  of  dollars. 
I  give  you  all  these  family  details  as  thinking  they  may  be  of  interest 
to  you — 

(To  BE  Continued.) 


THE  POINDEXTER  FAMILY. 
(Continued.) 

The  Will  of  Thomas  Poindexter. 

[The  testator  was  a  son  of  John  Poindexter  of  Louisa  Co.  He  died  in 
Franklin  Co,  Ky  where  his  will  was  proved;  but  a  copy  was  recorded  in 
Louisa  Co.     See  this  Magazine  XX,  110,  220,  441] 

In  the  name  of  God  amen.  I  bequeth  my  soul  into  the  hands  of  God  and 
my  body  to  the  dust  from  whence  it  came:  being  in  perfect  sense  and  mem- 
ory. I  now  make  this  my  last  will  and  testament  of  what  it  hath  pleased 
God  to  give  me,  in  manner  as  followeth  towit.  1st.  my  desire  is  that 
all  my  just  debts  should  be  paid.  2nd.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  son 
James  two  negroes  by  the  names  of  Phillis  and  Martin,  one  gtm  to  him 
and  his  heirs  forever.  3rd.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  son  Robert  two 
negroes  by  the  name  of  Tom  and  Ann,  one  feather  bed  and  furniture, 
to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 


GENEALOGY.  215 

4th.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  son  Richard  one  negro  wench 
by  the  name  of  Nan  and  her  increase  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

5th.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  son  George  two  negroes  by  the 
names  of  Sally  and  Milly  and  their  increase  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

6th.  I  give  and  bequeth  imto  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Jones 
Commack  one  negro  women  named  Mary,  her  increase,  one  cow  and 
feather  bed  and  furniture  to  her  and  her  heirs  forever. 

7th.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  daughter  Lucy,  three  negroes 
by  the  names  of  Hannah,  James  and  Jude  and  their  increase;  one  cow 
and  calf,  one  feather  bed  and  furniture  to  her  and  her  heirs  forever. 

8th.  My  desire  is  that  the  negroes  I  sold  for  my  life,  should  be 
collected  and  equally  divided  amoung  my  children,  Viz. — my  sons  Ga- 
briel, Thomas,  Robert,  James,  Richard,  George  and  my  daughter  Molly 
Cosbys  heirs- Viz-Stith  Cosby,  Nicholas,  Frances,  Betsy  and  Garland: 
my  daughters,  Elizabeth  Jones  Cammack  and  Lucy,  them  and  their  in- 
crease to  them  and  their  heirs  forever. 

9th.  I  give  imto  Garland  Cosby's  daughter  Betsy,  one  negro  by 
name  Milly  and  her  increase  to  her  and  her  heirs  forever. 

10th.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  Garland  Cosby's  sons  — Viz — 
Stith  Cosby,  Nicholas,  Francis  and  Garland,  one  negro  woman  by  name 
Dinah  and  her  increase  to  them  and  theirs  forever. 

11th.  I  give  and  bequeth  all  my  lands  to  be  equally  divided 
among  all  my  children.  Viz. -my  sons  John,  Gabriel,  Thomas,  Robert, 
James,  Richard,  George  and  my  daughter  Molly  Cosby's  heirs.  Viz. 
Stith  Cosby,  Nicholas,  Francis  and  Garland;  my  daughters,  Elizabeth  J- 
Cammack  and  Lucy,  to  them  and  their  heirs  forever. 

12th.  I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  son  Gabriel,  one  horse  and 
plantation  tools  and  one  large  looking  glass,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

I  do  appoint  my  sons  Thomas  Poindexter  and  James  Poindexter 
and  Garland  Cosby,  executors  to  this  my  last  will  and  testament. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  affixed  my 
seal  this  fifteenth  day  of  July  one  thousand  seven  himdred  and  ninety 
six. 

Signed  sealed  and 
delivered  in  the  presence 
of  Josh  Adams 
John  Perry 
Robert  Perry 
Annexed  to  the  above  will  my  desire  is,  that  all  the  residue  of  my  estate 
both  real  and  personal,  that  has  not  been  heretofore  mentioned  should 
be  sold  and  all  my  debts  paid  and  the  balance  of  the  money  to  be  applied 
to  the  use  of  purchasing  a  house  for  my  daughter  Lucy  and  her  heirs  for- 
ever: also  my  desire  is  the  old  negro  wench  Jude  should  be  set  at  liberty 
the  remainder  of  her  days. 

Thomas  Poindexter. 


216  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Franklin  Covmty — At  a  court  held  for  the  county  aforesaid  on  Tuesday 
the  twelfth  day  of  December  1796  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Thomas 
Poindexter  deceased  was  produced  in  Court  and  proved  by  the  oaths  of 
Joseph  Adams,  John  Perry,  Robert  Perry,  subscribing  witnesses  thereto, 
which  was  ordered  to  be  recorded. 

Test.  Daniel  Weisiger  C.  F.  C. 

At  a  court  held  for  the  said  County  on  Tuesday  the  18th.  day  of  Jan.  1797 
the  last  will  and  testament  of  Thomas  Poindexter  deed,  was  this  day 
exibited  in  open  Court  and  being  heretofore  proved  and  ordered  to  be 
recorded  except  as  to  the  Codicil  thereto  annexed,  there  being  no  sub- 
scribing witnesses  to  the  same:  thereupon  Christopher  Cammack  and 
Robert  Perry  came  into  Court,  and  being  sowm,  declared  that  they  were 
acquainted  with  the  handwriting  of  the  said  deceased  and  that  they  be- 
lieved that  the  signature  to  the  said  Codicil  was  written  with  the  hand  of 
of  the  said  Thomas  Poindexter,  therefore  it  is  ordered  by  the  Court  that 
the   same   be  recorded. 


James  Poindexter  one  of  the  executors  named  in  said  will,  came 
into  Court  and  having  made  oath  thereto,  as  the  law  directs,  on  his 
motion  certificate  is  granted  him  for  obtaining  a  probate  thereof  in  due 
form,  on  his  giving  security:  he  together  with  Christopher  Cammack 
and  Robert  Perry  his  securities,  entered  into  and  acknol wedged  their 
bond  with  security  of  two  thousand  pounds  with  condition  agreeable  to 
law. 

Daniel  Weiseger  C.  F.  C. 
A  copy  Daniel  Weiseger  C.  F.  C. 

Kentucky,  Franklin  County,  to  wit: 


Family  Bible  Record  of  Thomas  Poindexter. 

(Son  of  Thomas  Poindexter,  whose  will  precedes  this.) 

Thomas  Poindexter  Sr.,  was  bom  May  25th,  1760. 
Sally  Ragland  (Poindexter)  his  wife  was  bom  June  6th,  1769. 
They  were  married  March  28th,  1790. 

Colin  Johnson  was  born  Dec.  7th,  1786. 

Mary  his  wife  (who  was  M.  Poindexter)  was  bom  Feb.  11th,  1793. 
They  were  married  Jany.  15th,  1818. 

Wm.  S.  Winston  was  born  Oct.  12th,  1796. 

Anna  L.  his  wife(  who  was  Anna  L.  Poindexter)  was  bom  July  5th, 
1803.     They  were  married  January  9th,  1822. 


1822. 


GENEALOGY.  217 


Children  of  Thos.  Poindexter,  Sr.,  towit:- 

Lucy  Jones  Poindexter  wa^  bom  July  21st,  1791. 

Polly  Poindexter  (Johnson)  was  bom  Feb.  11th,  1793. 

Patsy  Poindexter  (Lily)  was  born  Oct.  25th,  1794. 

Ww.  Ragland  Poindexter  was  bom  Mch.  9th,  1796. 

Thomas  Poindexter,  Jr.  was  born  April  19th,  1798. 

Sally  Ragland  Poindexter  (Perkins)     was  bom  Dec.  27th,  1799. 

James  L.  Poindexter  was  bom  July  1st,  1801. 

Ann  Lipscomb  Poindexter  (Winston)  was  bom  July  5th,  1803. 

George  Poindexter  was  bom  Mch.  8th,  1805. 

Louisa  Poindexter  was  born  Feb.  13th,  1807. 

Saml.  Ragland  Poindexter  was  born  Sep.  13th,  1808. 

John  Jones  Poindexter  was  bom  Aug.  19th,  1816. 

Henry  Poindexter  was  bom  Aug.  1st,  1812. 

Edward  Poindexter  was  bom  July  7th,  1814. 

DEATHS. 

Mary  Johnson  wife  of  Colin  Johnson  died  Nov.  22nd,  1820. 
Doct.  Wm.  R.  Poindexter  died  at  Woodville  Mississippi,  July  20th, 

Lucy  J.  Poindexter  died  Nov.  30th,  1827. 

Saml.  Ragland  Poindexter  died  Mch.  23rd,  1835. 

Ann  L.  Winston,  wife  W.  S.  Winston  died  Nov.  22nd,  1836. 

Sally  R.  Perkins,  wife  Nathl.  Perkins  died  April  29th,  1837. 

George  Poindexter  died  May  13th,  1837. 

John  Jones  Poindexter  died  Jime  12th,  1837. 

Louisa  Poindexter  died  Aug.  29th,  1840. 

Henry  Poindexter  died  at  Vicksburg,  Jany.  4th,  1843. 

Thomas  Poindexter,  Sr.  died  Apl.  10th,  1843. 

Mrs  Sally  Ragland  Poindexter  died  Feb.  10th,  1857. 

Thomas  Poindexter  Jr.  died  Feby.  7th,  1851. 

Edward  Poindexter  died  Apl.  15th,  1851. 

James  L.  Poindexter  died  June  29th,  1853. 

Patsy  Poindexter  (Lily)  died  April  3rd,  1875. 

I 

1.  Charles  Poindexter  son  of  Dr.  James  W.  Poindexter  a  dmg- 
gist  in  Charlottesville. 

2.  Thomas  Poindexter  married  a  Miss  Eliza  Burton  of  Bedford. 
He  died  in  1850.  Three  of  his  children  were  living  at  his  old  home  "Wav- 
erly"  near  Bellevue  P.  O.  Bedford.  Mrs.  Sally  West  who  had  children, 
Mrs.  Maggie  Moore  and  her  children,  and  Jenny  B.  Poindexter  unmarried. 

3.  Edward  stood  very  high  in  Louisa  for  sense  and  character  and 
management. 


218  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

4.     Many  of  the  Johnsons,  Winstons,  Perkins,  Lillys  are  yet  liv- 
ing in  Louisa  and  adjoining  coimties. 
The  family  line  was  as  follows: 

1.  John  Poindexter,  his  son,  the  first  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

2.  Thomas  Poindexter  (Son  of  John). 

3.  Thomas  Poindexter,  brother  of  John,  James,  Robert,  Richard 
and  Gabriel,  George  and  son  of  Thomas. 

4.  James  L.  Poindexter  his  son. 

(To  BE  Continued.) 


EPPES  WILLS. 

Will  of  Richard  Eppes. 

I,  Richard  Eppes,  of  City  Point,  in  Prince  George  County,  know- 
ing the  certainty  of  death  &  the  uncertainty  of  the  time  when,  do  there- 
fore make  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  the  manner  and  form  as 
followeth,  vizt: — 

Imprimus — I  give  imto  my  son  Richard  Epes,  my  plantation  and 
track  of  land  whereon  I  now  dwell  called  City  Point,  (except  five  acres) 
after  my  wife's  decease,  I  also  give  unto  my  said  son  four  negroes,  two 
of  them  to  be  midling  good  working  hands  in  the  judgment  of  my  execu- 
tors, the  other  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  and  furniture,  six  head  of 
cattle  young  &  old,  one  midling  good  horse,  bridle  &  saddle,  to  him  and 
his  heirs  forever. 

Item — I  give  vmto  my  son  Archibald  Eppes,  one  half  of  my  planta- 
tion and  tract  of  land  in  Charles  City  called  the  Island,  after  my  wife's 
decease;  I  also  give  unto  my  said  son,  four  negroes,  two  of  them  to  be 
midling  good  workers,  the  other  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  and 
furniture,  six  head  of  cattle,  young  and  old,  one  midling  good  horse,  sad- 
dle and  bridle,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item — I  give  unto  my  son  Thomas  Eppes,  one  half  of  my  planta- 
tion and  tract  of  land  in  Charles  City  called  the  Island,  after  my  wife's 
decease;  I  give  also  unto  my  said  son,  four  negroes,  two  of  them  to  be 
midling  good  workers,  the  other  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  and 
furniture,  six  head  of  cattle  young  and  old,  one  midling  good  horse,  sad- 
dle &  bridle,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item — I  give  unto  my  son  Robertson  Eppes,  my  plantation  and 
tract  of  land  in  Prince  George  County  called  Rise  lands,  after  my  wife's 
decease;  I  also  give  unto  my  said  son  two  lots  of  land,  at  City  Point  of 
one  acre  each  adjoining  the  river,  near  about  where  Hamlin  Allen  now 
1  ives,  also  four  negroes, two  of  them  to  be  middling  good  workers, the  other 
two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  and  furniture,  one  middling  good  horse, 
saddle  and  bridle,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 


GENEALOGY  219 

Item — I  give  unto  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Eppes,  one  lot  of  land  at 
City  Point,  of  one  acre,  adjoining  the  river,  to  be  laid  off  at  the  discretion 
of  my  executors,  adjoining  the  lots  devised  to  my  son  Robertson  whenever 
she  arrives  to  lawful  age,  or  is  married,  also  four  negroes,  two  to  be  work- 
ers and  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  &  furniture,  and  four  head  of 
cattle. 

Item — I  give  unto  my  daughter  Christian  Eppes  when  she  arrives 
at  age  or  is  married,  one  lot  of  land  at  City  Point,  of  one  acre  adjoining 
the  river,  to  be  laid  off  with  the  lot  before  mentioned  at  the  discretion 
of  my  executors,  near  where  Hamlin  Allen  now  resides,  also  four  negroes, 
two  of  them  to  be  workers  and  the  other  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed 
and  furniture,  and  four  head  of  cattle. 

Item — I  give  imto  my  daughter  Polly  Eppes,  when  she  arrives  at 
age  or  is  married,  one  lot  of  land  at  City  Point  adjoining  the  river  and  the 
lot  above  devised  to  contain  one  acre,  and  be  laid  off  at  the  discretion 
of  my  executors,  also  four  negroes,  two  of  them  to  be  workers,  and  the 
other  two  young  ones,  one  feather  bed  and  furniture,  and  four  head  of 
cattle. 

Item — I  lend  unto  my  dear  and  loving  wife  Christian  Eppes,  the 
use  of  all  my  lands,  during  her  natural  life,  and  I  give  her  the  residue  of 
my  estate,  both  within  doors  &  without  (excepting  what  I  have  already 
given  away)  for  her  own  comfortable  support  and  the  maintenance  of  my 
children,  and  respecting  this  residuary  part  of  my  estate,  I  grant  my  dear 
wife  full  privilege  to  dispose  of  it  at  her  death,  in  any  manner  she  please 
among  my  children. 

Item — It  is  my  desire  that  in  lotting  off  the  negroes  for  my  chil- 
dren as  they  arrive  to  age,  that  particular  care  may  be  taken  to  satisfy  the 
poor  creatures,  by  keeping  families  together  as  much  as  the  circumstan- 
ces of  things  will  admit,  and  that  the  ancient  and  infirm  negroes  in  my 
family  shall  be  comfortably  supported  in  their  old  age. 

Item — I  desire  that  estate  may  not  be  appraised. 

Lastly — I  appoint  my  dear  wife  executrix,  and  my  son  Richard  and 
my  brother-in-law  William  Robertson,  executors  to  my  last  will  and 
testament.  In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  af- 
firmed my  seal  this  twenty  seventh  day  of  November  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  one  thousand,  seven  himdred  and  eighty  eight. 

[Sealed  and  delivered  Richd  Eppes.     [seal] 

in  presence  of 

Archibald  Robertson.] 

(To  BE  CON'CLUDED.) 


220  BOOK  REVIEWS 


BOOK  REVIEWS. 


A  History  of  Rockingham  County,  Virginia.  By  John  W.  Wayland, 
Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  History  State  Normal  School,  Harrisonburg- 
Va.,  Member  Virginia  Historical  Society,  American  Historical 
Association,  Pennsylvania  German  Society  &c.;  Author  of  "Po- 
litical Opinions  of  Thomas  Jefferson",  "The  German  Element  of 
the  Shenandoah  Valley  of  Virginia  &c."  Ruebush-Elkins  Com- 
pany, Dayton,  Virginia,  1912,  pp.  467,  with  94  illustrations  and 
maps,  and  full  index. 

Rockingham  is  one  of  Virginia's  largest  and  richest  covinties  and 
has  been  very  fortunate  in  having  so  able  and  scholarly  an  historian 
as  Dr.  Wayland.  In  every  phase  of  the  history,  civil,  military,  relig- 
ious, and  economic,  the  work  of  the  trained  student  is  evident. 

While  giving  in  a  very  interesting  way  all  of  the  things  usually 
found  in  county  histories,  the  author  has  studied  and  presents  many  im- 
portant subjects  which  the  average  writer  of  such  works  overlooks,  or 
does  nor  understand  the  importance  of. 

The  appendix  contains  much  matter  of  interest  including  a  good 
bibliography. 

If  our  reviewing  space  were  not  crowded  it  would  be  a  pleasure  to 
enter  more  fully  into  the  character  and  merits  of  this  admirable  work. 

Richmond  Her  Past  and  Present.  By  W.  Asbury  Christian,  D.  D. 
Illustrated.  Manufactured  by  L.  H.  Jenkins,  Richmond,  Va., 
1912.  pp.  618  with  index. 

It  is  very  surprising  that  Richmond  should  so  long  have  been  with- 
out a  historian.  Mordecai  and  Little,  writing  many  years  ago,  did  but 
little  to  supply  the  want,  and  Dr.  Christian's  work  can  hardly  be  called 
a  history.  It  is  however  a  very  useful  chronicle.  The  author  has  been 
an  indefatigable  student  of  newspaper  files,  and  has  given,  in  compact 
form,  most  of  the  great  and  small  events  in  the  history  of  the  City  down 
to  the  present  time. 

As  a  chronicle  of  events,  especially  since  the  Revolution,  "Rich- 
mond, Her  Past  and  Present"  has  much  value.  As  a  real  history  there 
is  much  lacking. 


VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE.  221 

The  author,  indeed,  shows  in  many  places  an  unfamiliarity  with 
history  outside  of  the  newspapers.  On  p.  3  he  seems  to  think  that 
Henricopolis  was  at  the  site  of  Richmond.  Certainly  there  never  was  a 
new  Henrico  at  Tuckahoe. 

St.  Johns  Church  (p.  8)  was  not  called  St.  Johns  when  it  was  built, 
but  was  given  that  name  about  1829.  An  account  is  given  of  Amnold's 
occupation  of  Richmond;  but  not  of  that  by  Comwallis  later  in  the  same 
year.  The  plan  for  Gabriel's  Insurrection  (pp.  52-53)  had  been  arranged 
much  more  carefully  than  would  be  thought  from  the  account  given  here. 

On  page  198  it  is  stated  in  regard  to  William  and  Mary  College 
that  "the  Assembly  after  the  burning  of  the  town  of  Henrico,  ordered 
it  to  be  built  in  Williamsburg."  Henrico  was  burnt  in  1622  and  William 
and  Mary  was  not  chartered  until  1692-3.  The  two  College  plans  had 
nothing  to  do  with  each  other. 

A  series  of  views  of  Richmond  at  various  dates  is  reproduced 
and  adds  to  the  value  of  what,  as  has  been  stated,  is  a  very  useful  book. 

Dr.  William  LeRoy  Broun,  compiled  by  Thomas  L.  Broun,  assisted 
by  Bessie  Lee  Broun  and  Sally  T.  Ordway,  New  York.  The 
Neale  Publishing  Company  1912,  pp.  247,  with  portraits. 

Dr.  Broun  did  admirable  work  as  an  officer  of  the  ordnance  de- 
partment of  the  Confederacy;  but  his  great  lifework  was  what  he  did  for 
education  in  the  South  after  the  war;  especially  as  President  of  the 
Alabama  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College.  The  story  of  his  life 
was  worth  preserving,  and  it  has  been  well  told  by  the  authors  of  this 
book. 

A  large  part  of  the  Volume  consists  of  letters  to  and  from  Dr. 
Broun,  articles  on  his  life  and  work  other  than  the  authors,  and  addresses 
by  Dr.  Broun  himself. 

The  Land  Where  We  Were  Dreaming  and  other  Poems  of  Daniel 
Bedinger  Lucas.  Edited  by  Charles  W.  Kent,  Ph.  D.,  and  Vir- 
ginia Lucas  with  a  critical  introduction  by  Charles  W.  Kent,  Ph. 
D.  University  Edition,  Richard  G.  Badger.  The  Gorham  Press 
Boston  [1913],  pp.  252  with  portrait. 

As  our  review  department  has  to  be  confined  to  historical  sub- 
jects, we  can  only  note  the  receipt  of  this  collection  of  Judge  Lucas' 
poems. 

Captain  Roger  Jones  of  London  and  Virginia — Some  of  His  Ante- 
cedents AND  Descendants.  With  appreciative  notices  of  the 
Families  of  Bathurst,  Belfield,  Browning,  Carter,  Catesby,  Cocke, 
Graham,  Fauntleroy,  Hickman,  Hoskins,  Latane — Lewis,  Meri- 
wether, Skelton,  Walker,  Waring  and  others.     By  Judge  L.   H. 


222  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Jones  [Louisville,  Ky.],  Albany,  New  York.  J.  Munsell's  Sons 
1891,  pp.  442  with  30  portraits,  and  75  fac-similes  of  manuscripts, 
copies  of  Armorial  Seals,  views  &c.     For  sale  by  the  author. 

Judge  Jones'  history  if  this  noted  family,  which  has  given  so  many 
distinguished  sons  to  the  civil  and  military  service  of  the  Country,  has 
long  been  well  and  favorably  known.  He  is  the  fortunate  possessor  of  a 
very  large  and  valuable  collection  of  family  papers  covering  the  period 
from  the  emigrant  to  the  present  time.  Many  of  these  papers  contained 
signatures,  armorial  seals  and  other  matters  of  interest  outside  as  well 
as  within  the  family  connection,  and  many  have  desired  to  have  access 
to  them.  In  addition  to  genealogical  information  they  contain  much 
relating  to  social  history,  education  and  economic  conditions  in  the 
colonial  period. 

The  author  has  now  made  many  of  these  documents  accessible 
in  a  new  edition.  This  edition  was  prepared  by  using  the  sheets  of  the 
first  edition,  making  large  additions  which  are  the  result  of  investiga- 
gations  since  that  was  published  and  inserting  a  very  large  number  of 
good  photographic  fac-similes. 

The  book  is  of  great  interest  and  should  be  in  all  collections  of 
American  genealogy. 

Genealogy  of  the  Baskerville  Family  and  Some  Allied  Families  In- 
cluding THE  English  Descent  from  1266  A.  D.  By  Patrick  Ham- 
ilton Baskerville,  Richmond,  Va.  W.  Ellis  Jones'  Sons  Inc.  1912 
pp.  214  with  four  illustrations  and  index. 

This  handsome  and  carefully  prepared  book  was  compiled  by  Mr. 
Baskerville  for  distribution  among  the  members  of  his  family.  It  treats 
of  the  Baskervilles,  descended  from  John  Baskerville  of  York  County, 
Va.,  a  younger  son  of  Thomas  Baskerville  of  Old  Withington,  Cheshire, 
the  Hamiltons,  Turners  (of  N.  C),  Watkins',  Douglas,  Dickenson,  Boil- 
ing, Barber,  Norvell,  Minge,  Harrison,  Eaton,  Coleman,  Embry,  Gor- 
don, Murray,  Kennon,  Worsham,  Rolfe  and  others. 

Of  course  most  of  these  families  are  treated  of  only  in  their  relation 
to  the  main  subject  of  the  book.  There  is  a  large  number  of  family 
charts,  and  the  whole  work  is  very  well  done. 

The  Glengarry  McDonalds  of  Virginia  By  Mrs.  Flora  McDonald 
Williams.  With  an  Introductory  sketch  of  the  early  History 
of  the  Glengarry  clan,  Louisville.  Geo.  G.  Felter  Company  1911. 
pp.  340  with  numerous  portraits  &c. 

Angus  McDonald,  believed  with  good  reason  to  have  been  of  the 
Glengarry  family,  was  out  in  the  "45",  came  to  Virginia  in  1746,  settled 
finally  in  Frederick  Co.,  named  his  new  home  "Glengarry"  and  did  good 


BOOK  REVIEWS  223 

service  as  a  commander  against  the  Indians.  His  descendants  have 
been  men  of  prominence,  and  as  became  their  descent,  have,  been  active 
in  all  of  our  wars.  Mrs.  Williams  has  written  an  admirable  family  his- 
tory which  is  greatly  helped  by  the  number  of  letters,  diaries  &c.  of  the 
Civil  War  period  to  which  she  has  access.  Every  McDonald  above  the 
age  of  childhood  was  in  the  Confederate  Army. 

The  McCues  of  the  Old  Dominion.  Supplemented  by  Brief  Charts 
of  the  Steele,  Arbuckle,  and  Cunningham  Families.  Compiled 
by  John  N.  McCue  member  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  June 
1912.  Mo.  Printing  &  Pub.  Co.  Mexico,  Mo.  pp.  272  with  57 
portraits  and   other  illustrations. 

Another  of  our  well  known  Scotch-Irish  families  is  here  treated 
of  in  a  very  thorough  and  comprehensive  way  Mr.  McCue  has  evidently 
spared  no  pains  to  make  his  book  as  complete  and  accurate  as  possible. 

Welsh  Settlement  of  Pennsylvania.     By  Charles  H.  Browning,  Phila- 
delphia, W.  J.  Campbell,  1912,  pp.  631,  with  17  maps  and  illustra- 
tions,  and   index. 

Beginning  in  the  year  1682  a  considerable  emigration  of  Quakers 
from  Wales  to  Pennsylvania  took  place. 

This  book  exploits  the  chronicles  and  economic  history  of  these 
Welsh  Friends  (and,  incidentally,  of  the  Welsh  Baptists,  and  other  Welsh 
American  colonists,  who  removed  in  Colonial  times  to  Perm's  province), 
and  their  families,  ancestors  and  descendants;  records  of  their  land  com- 
panies, and  of  their  plantations  in  the  "Welsh  Tract;"  sketches  of  their 
Meetings,  monthly  and  preparative,  and  of  their  meeting  houses  (espec- 
ially that  of  the  Merion  Prepararory  Meeting);  documentary  accounts 
of  the  adminstration  of  civil  affairs  in  the  "Welsh  Barony;"  the  annals  of 
the  Welsh  townships,  Merion,  Haverford,  Radnor,  etc.,  the  substan- 
tiated story  of  the  struggles  between  the  Welsh  Friends  and  William 
Penn,  and  his  representatives;  memoirs  of  many  early  Welsh  Friends, 
etc.,  and  it  is  such  subjects  that  indicate  the  general  scope  of  this  work. 

Discourse  on  the  Lives  and  Characters  of  the  Early  Presidents  and 
Trustees  of  Hampden-Sidney  College.  Delivered  at  the  Cen- 
tenary of  the  Founding  of  the  College,  on  the  14th  day  of  June, 
1876.  By  Hugh  Blair  Grisby,  LL.  D.  President  of  the  Virginia 
Historical  Society  and  Chancellor  of  the  College  of  William  and 
Mary  ,  Richmond.  The  Hermitage  Press,  1913,  pp.  X,  46,  with 
several  portraits. 

The  mingling  of  careful  ^historical  study  with  a  great  amount  of 
information  derived  from  individuals  and  never  before  in  print,  which 
gave  such  interest  and  value  to  Mr.  Grisby's  addresses  on  the  Conven- 


224  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

tions  of  1776,  1788  and  1829,  characterizes  that  which  is  now  printed  for 
the  first  time.  Mr.  A.  J.  Morrison  has  again  done  good  service  to 
Hampden-Sidney  and  to  Virginia  in  publishing  this  address.  It  is  pre- 
faced by  a  life  of  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  and  contains  portraits  of  various 
presidents  of  the  College. 

JouRN.'VLS  OF  THE  HousE  OF  BuRGEssES  OF  Virginia  1702-1705,  1705-1706, 
1710-1712.  Edited  by  H.  R.  Mcllwaine.  [Va.  State  Library] 
Richmond,  Virginia,  MCMXII,  pp.  XLIIII,  369,  with  index. 

This  splendidly  printed  series  of  Journals  goes  steadily  on.  They 
have  become  so  familiar  to  historical  students  that  all  that  need  be  said 
is  that  the  high  standard  of  the  preceding  volumes  has  been  maintained 
in  this.  The  prefaces  are,  as  usual,  valuable  contributions  to  the  history 
of  the  period  covered  by  the  Journals. 


THE 

Virginia  Magazine 

OF 

HISTORY  AND  BIOGRAPHY. 

Vol.  XXI.  JULY,  1913.  No.  3 

THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT 


Virginia  Seventeenth  Century  Records 


From  the  Original  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society 


Commissions  and  Instructions  to  the  Earl  of  Orkney  for  the 
Government  of  Virginia 


(Continued) 


52.  Provided  always  that  no  Person  be  discharged  out  ot 
Prison  who  stands  Committed  for  Debt  for  any  decree  of  Chan- 
cery or  any  Legal  proceedings  of  any  Court  of  Record. 

53.  And  for  the  preventing  any  Executions  that  may  be  made 
upon  Prisoners,  You  are  to  declare  Our  Pleasure  that  no  Baron 
or  Judge  shall  receive  for  himself  or  Clerks  for  granting  a  Writ 
of  Habeas  Corpus  more  than  Two  Shillings  and  Six  Pence  and 
the  lilce  Sum  for  taking  a  Recognizance  and  that  the  Provost 
Marshall  shall  not  receive  more  than  five  Shillings  for  every 


226  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Commitment,  One  Shilling  &  three  Pence  for  the  Bond  the 
Prisoner  is  to  Sign,  One  Shilling  &  three  Pence  for  every  Copy 
of  a  Mittimus  &  one  Shilling  &  three  Pence  for  every  Mile  he 
bringeth  Back  the  Prisoner. 

54.  And  further  you  are  to  Cause  this  our  Royal  Pleasure 
hereby  Signify'd  to  you  to  be  made  Publick  &  Register'd  in 
the  Council  Books  of  our  said  Colony. 

55.  And  Whereas  Commissions  have  been  granted  imto 
Several  Persons  in  our  Respective  Plantations  in  America  for 
the  trying  of  Pirates  in  those  Parts  pursuant  to  the  Act  for  the 
more  Effectual  Suppression  of  Piracy  and  by  a  Commission  sent 
to  our  Colony  of  Virginia  You  as  our  Lieutenant  and  Governor 
General  of  our  said  Colony  are  impower'd  together  with  others 
therein  mention'd  to  proceed  accordingly  in  Reference  to  Our 
said  Colony.  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  is  that  in  all  Matters  re- 
lating to  Pirates  You  govern  yourselves  according  to  the  intent 
of  the  Act  and  Commission  aforemention'd.  But  as  whereas 
Accessories  in  Cases  of  Piracy  beyond  the  Seas  are  by  the  said 
Act  left  to  be  try'd  in  this  Kingdom  according  to  the  Statute  of 
the  twenty  Eighth  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth  we  do  hereby  fur- 
ther direct  and  require  you  to  send  all  such  Accessories  in  Case 
of  Piracy  in  Our  foresaid  Colony  into  this  Kingdom  with  the 
Proper  Evidences  that  you  may  have  against  them  in  Order 
to  their  being  Try'd  here. 

IT  IS  OUR  FURTHER  PLEASURE  that  no  Person  for 
the  future  be  sent  as  Prisoners  to  this  Kingdom  from  our  said 
Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  without  Sufficient  Proof  of 
their  Crimes,  and  that  Proof  transmitted  along  with  the  said 
Prisoners. 

56.  In  Case  any  Goods  Money  or  other  Estate  of  Pirates  or 
Piratically  taken  or  brought  or  found  within  our  said  Colony 
of  Virginia  or  taken  on  board  any  Ships  or  Vessels  You  are  to 
Cause  the  same  to  be  Seiz'd  and  Secur'd  until  You  shall  have 
given  us  an  Account  thereof  and  receiv'd  our  Pleasure  Concern- 
ing the  Disposal  of  the  Same.  But  in  Case  such  Goods  or  any 
Part  of  them  are  Perishable  the  Same  shall  be  Publickly  Sold 
and  Disposed  of,  and  the  Produce  thereof  in  like  Manner  se- 
cur'd until  our  further  Order. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  227 

57.  You  shall  not  Erect  any  Court  or  Office  of  Judicatory  not 
before  Erected  or  Established  nor  dissolve  any  Court  or  Office 
already  Erected  or  Established  without  our  especial  Order :  But 
in  Regard  we  have  been  inform'd  that  there  is  a  Want  of  a  par- 
ticular Court  for  determining  of  small  Causes  You  are  to  recom- 
mend it  to  the  Assembly  of  our  said  Colony  that  a  Law  be  pass'd 
(if  not  already  done)  for  the  Constituting  such  Court  or  Courts 
for  the  ease  of  our  Subjects  there,  and  you  are  from  time  to 
time  to  transmit  to  our  said  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations an  Exact  Account  of  what  Causes  have  been  determin'd 
what  shall  be  then  Depending,  as  likewise  an  Abstract  of  all 
proceedings  of  the  Several  Courts  of  Justice  within  our  said 
Government. 

58.  You  are  to  Transmit  to  Us  &  to  Our  Commissioners  for 
Trade  and  Plantations  with  all  convenient  Speed  a  Particular 
Account  of  all  Establishments  of  Jirrisdictions  Courts  Offices 
and  Officers  Powers  Authorities  Fees  and  Priviledges  Granted  or 
Settled  within  our  said  Colony  to  the  End  you  may  receive  our 
farther  Directions  therein. 

59.  COMPLAINT  having  been  made  that  the  Members  of 
our  said  Council  in  all  Matters  of  Civil  Right  where  any  of 
them  are  Defendants  claim  a  Priviledge  of  Exemption  from  the 
Ordinary  forms  of  Process  by  Writ,  so  that  they  cannot  be  ar- 
rested, and  that  it  being  the  Practice  in  all  such  Cases  that  the 
Secretary  Summon  them  to  an  Appearance  by  a  Letter,  either 
C'omply  with  the  Same  or  Neglect  it  at  their  own  Pleasure  by 
which  Means  the  Course  of  Justice  is  obstructed  &  the  Plaintiffs 
\\ho  are  not  of  the  Council  are  left  destitute  of  relief.  You  are 
therefore  to  take  Special  Care  that  according  to  the  Order  made 
in  the  said  Council  of  Virginia  the  27  March  1678  (by  which  the 
Members  thereof  claim 'd  the  Aforesaid  Priviledge)  a  Letter  of 
Summons  to  any  of  the  said  Councelors  Sign'd  either  by  your 
self  or  by  the  Secretary  of  our  said  Colony  be  deem'd  as  binding 
and  as  Strict  in  Law  for  their  Appearance  as  a  Writ  and  that 
upon  their  Neglect  to  Comply  with  any  such  Summons  (Except 
only  in  time  of  General  Assembly)  they  be  liable  to  the  Ordi- 
nary forms  of  Common  Process. 


228  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

60.  And  you  are  with  the  Advice  and  Consent  of  our  said 
Council  to  take  Especial  Care  to  regulate  all  Salaries  and  Fees 
belonging  to  Places  or  Paid  upon  Emergencies  that  they  be 
within  the  Bounds  of  moderation  and  that  no  Exaction  be  made 
upon  any  Occasion  whatsoever,  as  also  that  Tables  of  all  Fees 
be  Publickly  himg  up  in  all  Places  where  such  Fees  are  to  be 
paid  and  you  are  to  transmit  Copies  of  all  such  Tables  of  Fees 
to  Us  &  to  Our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  as 
aforesaid. 

61.  WHEREAS  it  is  necessary  that  our  Rights  &  Dues  be 
preserved  and  recover'd  and  that  speedy  and  Effectual  Justice 
be  administer'd  in  all  Cases  relating  to  our  Revenue,  You  are  to 
take  Care  that  a  Covirt  of  Exchequer  be  call'd  and  do  meet  at 
all  such  times  as  shall  be  needfull  and  You  are  upon  your  Arri- 
val to  inform  us  and  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  &  Planta- 
tions whether  Our  Service  may  require  that  a  constant  Court  of 
Exchequer  be  Settled  &  Established  there. 

62.  You  are  to  take  Care  that  no  Man's  Life  Member  free- 
hold or  Goods  be  taken  away  or  harm'd  in  our  said  Colony 
otherwise  than  by  establish'd  and  known  Laws,  not  repugnant 
but  as  near  as  may  be  agreeable  to  the  Laws  of  this  Kingdom. 

63.  You  shall  administer  or  Cause  to  be  administer'd  the 
Oaths  appointed  by  Act  of  Parliament  to  be  taken  instead  of 
the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  and  Supremacy,  and  the  Oath  Men- 
tion'd  in  the  foresaid  Act  Entituled  an  Act  for  the  Security  of 
Her  Majesty's  Person  and  Government  and  of  the  Succession  to 
the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  in  the  Protestant  Line,  to  the  Mem- 
bers and  Officers  of  our  Covmcil  &  Assembly  and  to  all  Judges 
and  Justices  and  aU  other  Persons  that  hold  any  Office  or  Place 
of  Trust  or  Profit  in  oiu-  said  Colony  whether  by  Vertue  of  any 
Patent  under  our  Great  Seal  of  this  Kingdom  or  the  Publick 
Seal  of  Virginia  or  otherwise  and  you  shall  also  Cause  them  to 
make  and  Subscribe  the  aforesaid  Declaration  without  the  doing 
of  aU  which  you  are  not  to  admit  any  Person  whatsoever  into 
any  Publick  Office,  nor  Suffer  those  that  have  been  admitted 
formerly  to  Continue  therein. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  229 

64.  You  are  to  Permit  a  Liberty  of  Conscience  to  all  Persons 
except  Papists,  so  they  be  contented  with  a  quiet  and  peace- 
able Enjoyment  of  the  Same  not  giving  Offence  or  Scandal  to 
the  Government. 

65.  You  shall  send  to  us  &  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and 
Plantations  by  the  Conveyance  of  our  Ships  of  War,  an  Accotmt 
of  the  present  Number  of  Planters  and  Inhabitants — Men  Wo- 
men and  Children  as  well  Masters  as  Servants,  Free  and  Unfree, 
And  of  the  Slaves  in  our  said  Colony  as  also  a  Yearly  accoimt  of 
the  Increase  and  decrease  of  them  and  how  many  of  them  are 
fit  to  bear  Arms  in  the  Militia  of  our  said  Colony. 

66.  You  shall  also  Cause  an  Exact  Account  to  be  kept  of  all 
Persons  bom  Christened  and  Buried  and  you  shall  Yearly  send 
fair  Abstracts  thereof  unto  us  and  to  Oiu"  foresaid  Commis- 
sioners for  Trade  and  Plantations. 

67.  You  shall  take  Care  that  all  Planters  and  Christian  Ser- 
vants be  well  and  fitly  provided  with  Arms,  and  that  they  be 
listed  imder  good  Officers  and  when  and  as  often  as  shall  be 
thought  fit  Muster'd  and  Train'd  whereby  they  may  be  in  a  bet- 
ter readiness  for  the  Defense  of  oiur  said  Colony  and  Dominion 
under  your  Government,  and  you  are  to  use  your  utmost  En- 
deavours that  such  Planters  do  each  of  them  keep  such  Ntmibers 
of  White  Servants  as  by  Law  Directed  and  that  they  appear  in 
Arms  when  thereunto  required. 

68.  You  are  to  take  especial  Care  that  neither  the  frequency 
nor  unreasonableness  of  the  Marches  Musters  and  Trainings  be 
an  unnecessary  Impediment  to  the  Affairs  of  the  Inhabitants. 

69.  And  for  the  greater  Secvuity  of  that  Our  Colony  You 
are  to  Appoint  fit  Officers  and  Commanders  in  the  Several 
Parts  of  the  Country  bordering  upon  the  Indians  who  upon  any 
Invasion  may  raise  Men  and  Arms  to  oppose  them  untill  they 
shall  receive  yoiu*  directions  therein. 

70.  You  shall  not  upon  any  Occasion  whatsoever  Establish 
or  put  in  Execution  any  Articles  of  War  or  other  Law  Martial 
upon  any  of  Our  Subjects  Inhabitants  of  our  said  Colony  of 
Virginia  without  the  advise  and  Consent  of  our  Council  there. 


230  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

71.  AND  WHEREAS  there  is  no  Power  given  you  by  Our 
Commission  to  Execute  Martial  Law  in  time  of  Peace  upon 
Soldiers  in  Pay  and  yet  nevertheless  it  may  be  necessary  that 
some  Care  be  taken  for  the  keeping  good  Discipline  amongst 
those  that  we  may  at  any  time  hereafter  think  fit  to  send  into 
our  said  Colony  (which  may  properly  be  provided  for  by  the 
Legislative  Power  of  the  same)  You  are  therefore  to  recommend 
imto  the  General  Assembly  of  our  said  Colony  that  (if  not 
already  done)  they  Prepare  such  Act  and  Law  for  the  Punishing 
Mutiny  Desertions  and  fake  Musters,  and  for  the  better  pre- 
serving of  good  Discipline  amongst  the  Said  Soldiers  as  may  best 
Answer  those  ends. 

72.  AND  WHEREAS  together  with  other  Powers  of  Vice 
Admiralty  You  will  Receive  Authority  from  our  Commissioners 
for  executing  the  Office  of  our  high  Admiral  of  great  Britain 
and  of  our  Plantations  upon  the  refusal  or  Neglect  of  any  Cap- 
tain or  Commander  of  any  of  our  Ships  of  War  to  Execute  the 
Written  Order  he  shall  receive  from  you  for  Our  Service  and  the 
Service  of  our  Colony  imder  your  Government,  or  upon  his 
Neglect  &  undue  Execution  thereof  to  suspend  such  Captain  or 
Commander  from  the  Exercise  of  his  said  Office  of  Captain  or 
Commander  and  to  committ  into  Safe  Custody  either  on  Board 
his  own  Ship  or  elsewhere  at  Your  Discretion  in  Order  to  his 
being  brought  to  Answer  for  such  refusal  or  Neglect  by  Commis- 
sion either  imder  Our  great  Seal  of  this  Kingdom  or  from  our 
Commissioners  for  executing  the  Office  of  our  high  Admiral  of 
Great  Britain  for  the  time  being  And  whereas  you  will  likewise 
receive  directions  from  our  said  Commissioners  for  Executing 
the  Office  of  our  high  Admiral  of  Great  Britain  and  of  our  Plan- 
tations that  the  Captain  or  Commander  so  by  you  suspended 
shall  during  such  his  Suspension  and  Commitment  be  succeeded 
by  such  Commission  or  Warrant  Officer  of  our  said  Ship  ap- 
pointed by  our  said  Commissioners  for  Executing  the  Office  of 
our  high  Admiral  of  Great  Britain  for  the  time  being  as  by  the 
known  Practice  and  Discipline  of  our  Navy  does  and  ought  next 
to  Succeed  as  in  case  of  Death,  Sickness  or  any  other  ordinary 
disability  happening  to  the  Commander  of  any  of  our  Ships  of 
War  and  not  Otherwise  You  standing  Accountable  for  the  truth 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  231 

and  Importance  of  the  Crime  &  Misdemeanor  for  which  you  shall 
so  proceed  to  the  Suspending  any  such  Captain  or  Commander 
You  are  not  to  Exercise  the  said  Power  of  Suspending  any  such 
Captains  or  Commanders  of  our  Ships  of  War  otherwise  than  by 
Vertue  of  such  Commission  or  Authority  from  our  said  Commis- 
sioners for  executing  the  Office  of  our  high  Admiral  of  Great 
Britain  any  former  Custom  or  usage  Notwithstanding. 

73.  You  are  to  demand  an  Account  from  all  Persons  con- 
cem'd  of  the  Arms  Ammunition  and  Stores  sent  to  our  said 
Colony  from  our  Office  of  Ordnance  here  as  likewise  what  other 
Arms  Ammunition  and  Stores  have  been  bought  with  the  Pub- 
lick  Money  for  the  Service  of  our  said  Colony  and  how  the  Same 
have  been  employ'd,  and  whether  any  of  them  and  how  many  of 
them  have  been  sold,  Spent,  Lost,  Decay'd  or  dispos'd  of  and 
to  whom  and  to  what  use  and  to  transmit  the  said  Account  to 
Us  and  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  afore- 
said. 

74.  You  shall  take  an  Inventory  of  all  Arms  Ammunition 
and  Stores  remaining  in  any  of  out  Magazines  or  Garrisons  in 
our  Colony  imder  your  Government,  and  immediately  after 
your  Arrival  to  transmit  the  same  unto  Us  and  to  our  Commis- 
sioners for  Trade  and  Plantations  and  the  like  Inventory  after- 
wards half  Yearly,  as  also  a  Duplicate  thereof  to  our  Master 
General  or  Principal  Officers  of  our  Ordnance,  which  Accounts 
are  to  express  the  Particulars  of  Ordnance  Carriages,  iPowder, 
Balls,  and  all  other  Sorts  of  Arms  and  Ammunition  in  our  Pub- 
lick  Stores  at  your  said  Arrival,  and  so  from  time  to  time  of  what 
shall  be  sent  you  or  bought  v\4th  the  Publick  Money  and  to 
specify  the  time  of  the  disposal  and  the  Occasion  thereof. 

75.  You  are  to  take  especial  Care  that  fit  Storehouses  be 
Settled  throughout  our  said  Colony  for  receiving  and  keeping  of 
Arms  Ammunition  and  Publick  Stores. 

76.  You  shall  cause  a  Survey  to  be  made  of  all  the  Consider- 
able landing  Places  and  Harbours  in  our  said  Colony,  and  with 
the  Advice  of  our  Council  there  Erect  in  any  of  them  such 
Fortifications  as  shall  be  necessary  for  the  Security  and  Advan- 
tage of  that  Colony  which  shall  be  done  at  the  Publick  Charges 


232  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

of  the  Country,  in  which  we  doubt  not  of  the  Chearfull  concur- 
rence of  the  Inhabitants,  thereunto  from  the  common  Security 
and  benefit  they  will  receive  thereby. 

77.  OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE  IS  that  aU  Servants 
that  shall  come  to  be  Transported  to  Our  Colbny  of  Virginia 
shall  serve  their  respective  Masters  for  the  Terms  prescrib'd  by 
the  Laws  of  our  said  Colony,  and  the  said  Servants  shall  at  the 
end  of  the  said  Term  have  50  Acres  of  Land  Assign 'd  and  set 
out  to  every  of  them  respectively  to  Have  and  to  Hold  to  them 
and  every  of  them  their  Heirs  and  Assigns  for  ever  imder  the 
Rules  and  Duties  usually  Paid  and  reserved. 

78.  AND  WHEREAS  it  has  been  represented  that  the 
Grant  of  King  James  the  first  heretofore  made  to  that  our  Colony 
to  Exempt  the  Planters  from  paying  Quitrents  for  the  first  Seven 
Years  did  turn  to  the  great  Prejudice  of  the  same  and  that  many 
took  Occasion  thereby  to  take  and  Create  to  themselves  a 
Title  of  such  Quantitys  of  Land  which  they  never  intended  to 
or  in  truth  cou'd  Occupy  or  Cultivate  but  thereby  only  kept  out 
others  who  would  have  Planted  and  manured  the  Same,  and  King 
Charles  the  Second  having  therefore  by  his  Instructions  given 
to  Sir  W".  Berkly  revok'd  all  such  Grants  as  contrary  to  the 
Intention  of  the  said  King  James  the  first  and  to  the  good  of 
our  Subjects  there  We  do  likewise  give  the  same  directions  unto 
you,  that  if  any  Such  Grants  Shou'd  be  still  Insisted  on  the 
same  be  look'd  on  and  taken  to  be  void  and  of  None  Effect 
And  you  are  likewise  to  restrain  the  imlimited  practice  of 
taking  more  Lands  than  can  reasonably  be  Cultivated  and  to 
regulate  aU  Abuses  therein. 

79.  You  shall  with  the  Advice  of  Our  Cotmcil  there  take 
Care  to  appoint  Men  fitly  Qualify'd  to  be  Stu-veyors  throughout 
all  the  Several  Districts  of  Our  said  Colony,  and  that  they  be 
sworn  to  make  true  and  exact  Surveys  of  all  Lands  requir'd  to 
be  set  out  according  to  the  best  of  their  Skill. 

80.  You  shall  likewise  take  Care  that  a  General  Survey  be 
made  of  all  the  said  Colony  and  Dominion,  and  of  each  County 
in  it,  and  that  an  Exact  Map  or  Maps  be  thereupon  drawn,  and 
Transmitted  to  Us  and  to  our  foresaid  Commissioners  for  Trade 
and  Plantations. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  233 

81 .  And  You  are  further  to  take  Care  that  an  Exact  Account 
be  forthwith  drawn  of  all  Arrears  of  Quitrents  due  unto  Us  ex- 
pressing from  what  Persons,  for  what  Quantity  of  Land,  and  for 
what  time  those  Arrears  are  due,  and  likewise  an  Account  Spe- 
cifying what  Particular  Persons  throughout  all  our  said  Colony 
are  possess'd  above  20,000  Acres  of  Land  a  Piece,  by  what  Titles 
they  hold  the  said  Lands,  and  how  much  each  of  them  is  possess'd 
of  above  that  Quantity.  Both  which  Accotints  you  are  without 
Delay  to  transmit  to  Us  and  to  Our  Commissioners  for  Trade 
and  Plantations. 

82.  WHEREAS  it  was  represented  to  her  Late  Majesty  by 
the  President  and  Coimcil  of  our  said  Colony  that  the  Method 
of  Granting  Lands  as  directed  by  the  Instructions  given  to 
Robert  Himter  Esq'  bearing  Date  at  St.  James's  the  30th  of 
April  1707  is  not  agreeable  to  the  Laws  Constitution  and  Prac- 
tice of  our  said  Colony.  OUR  WILL  AND  PLEASURE 
THEREFORE  IS  That  for  the  future  the  Method  of  Granting 
of  Land  be  in  such  form  and  Manner,  and  imder  the  like  Con- 
ditions Covenants  and  Reservations  of  Qtiitrent  as  are  by  the 
Charter  and  Laws  of  that  our  Colony  allow'd  and  Directed  to 
be  made  and  as  were  permitted  to  be  made  before  the  In- 
structions given  to  Robert  Hunter  Esq'  as  aforesaid,  PRO- 
VIDED due  care  be  taken  that  in  all  such  Grants  hereafter  to 
be  made  regard  be  had  to  the  profitable  and  unprofitable 
Acres,  and  particularly  that  every  Patentee  be  obliged  in  the 
best  and  most  Effectual  Manner  to  Cultivate  &  Improve  three 
Acres  part  of  every  fifty  Acres  so  granted  within  the  term  of 
three  Years  after  the  Passing  of  such  Grant  and  in  Case  of  fail- 
ure thereof  such  Grant  or  Grants  to  be  void  and  of  None  Effect. 

(To  be  Continued) 


234  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-77. 

Bacon's  Rebellion* 


(Abstracts  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury,  and  copies  in  the  McDonald  and 
De  Jamette  Papers,  Virginia  State  Library.) 


(Continued.) 


Account  of  Tobacco  Import 
(Abstract) 

June,  1676 
The  public  account  of  the  Impost  of  2s  per  hogshead  upon 
tobacco  exported  from  Virginia. — that  is  the  Dr.  accoimt  being 
the  payments  made  thereof  to  the  Governor  of  the  Colony  and 
other  Officers  for  Salaries  &c.     Total  £2377  .6  .5.     Copy  Cer- 
tified by  Robert  Beverley. 
(Colonial  Papers.  2  pp.) 
Another  copy  is  entered  in  Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  80.  pp.  168-171. 


Ship's  Invoice 
(Abstract) 

July  20,  1676 
Invoice  of  Goods  and  Servants  aboard  the  Richard  and 
Elizabeth,  Nicholas  Pym,  Master,  for  Virginia  for  the  accoimt 
of    [Alderman]    Richard    Booth  and    Samuel  Story  of  Sam: 
Claphamson,  William  Hunt  and  William  Paggen. 
(Colonial  Papers.  7.  pp.) 

*-Much  valuable  material  for  the  history  of  Bacon's  Rebellion  has 
already  been  published  in  this  Magazine.  For  a  list  of  these  and  other 
published  documents  on  this  subject  see  the  Appendix  to  "The  Story  of 
Bacon's  Rebellion."     (New  York,  1907). 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  235 

July-Aug.,  1676 
Warrants  from  Colonel  Thomas  Ballard*  for  pressing 

MEN  AND  provisions  FOR  NATHANIEL  BaCON's  SERVICE 

[Indorsed] 

The  several  warrants  bear  date  July  6,  July  10,  and  August  25, 
1676  which  was  near  a  month  after  Sir  William  Berkeley  left 
his  house.  Young  was  hanged  for  executing  these  warrants 
and  commanding  the  Company  which  he  was  compelled  to  by 
Colonel  Ballard,  Colonel  of  the  Coimty. 

(Colonial  Papers.  4.  pp.) 


King's  Letter  to  ye  Duke  of  York  about  Nathaniel  Bacon 

(Copy) 
Charles  R, 

Most  dear,  and  most  entirely  beloved  brother,  We  greet  you 
well;  It  is  not  unknown  to  you  that  Nathaniel  Bacon  the 
Younger,  hath  made  himself  the  head  &  leader  of  a  rebellion 
in  Our  Colony  of  Virginia,  highly  to  the  Dishonour  of  Our  royal 
Authority  and  no  less  to  the  Detriment  of  Our  good  subjects  in 
that  Colony  besides  the  danger  of  the  Example  which,  if  not 
suppressed  and  punished,  may  spread  its  infection  into  the 
neighboring  plantations;  For  prevention  whereof  &  in  Order 
to  the  due  chastisement  of  the  Authors  and  abettors  of  those 
traitorous  and  pernicious  proceedings  in  our  said  Colony  of 
Virginia,  We  have  thought  fit  to  signify  our  pleasure  imto  you 
that  if  the  Said  Nathaniel  Bacon  or  any  of  his  Accomplices  or 
abettors  in  that  Rebellion,  shall,  for  their  safety  or  otherwise, 
retreat  or  resort  into  Yo''  Colony  and  Territory  of  New  York,  or 
into  any  part  thereof,  you  cause  them  and  every  of  them  to  be 
forthwith  seized  &  secured,  and  that  immediate  notice  thereof 
be  then  given  to  Our  Governor  or  Deputy  Governor  of  Virginia, 

*-Thomas  Ballard,  of  James  City  and  York  County,  bom  1630,  buried 
March  24,  1689;  for  many  years  Clerk  of  York  County.  He  was  a  Burgess 
(or  James  City  County,  October,  1666-November,  1685;  was  appointed 
member  of  Council,  1670,  but  was  removed  and  became  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  of  which  he  was  speaker,  1680-82. 


236  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

to  the  End  such  further  course  may  be  taken  with  them  as  the 
law  shall  require  in  that  case.  So  not  doubting  of  Yo'  Zeal  and 
Diligence  in  a  matter  so  much  conducing  to  the  public  peace 
&  the  welfare  of  Our  subjects,  both  in  Virginia,  and  other  Our 
adjacent  Colonys  and  Plantations.  We  bid  you  most  heartily 
farewell.  Given  &c.  the  last  day  of  September  1676,  in  the 
28th  Year  of  Our  reign. 

To  His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  or  Commander  in 
chief  imder  him  of  the  Colony  of  New  York  in  the  West  Indies. 

By  His  Ma""  Comand 

H.  Coventry, 
teste 
W.  Davis. 


King's  Letter  to  Lord  Baltimore  about  Nathaniel  Bacon 

(Copy) 

Right  truly  and  Well  beloved  We 
greet  you  well,  It  is  not  unknown 
Charles  R.  to  you  since  it  hath  so  long  since 

come  to  our  knowledge,  that  Na- 
thaniel Bacon  the  yoimger  hath  made  himself  the  head  and 
leader  of  a  rebellion  in  our  Colony  of  Virginia,  highly  to  the 
dishonor  of  Our  royal  Authority  and  no  less  to  the  detriment 
of  our  Good  subjects  in  that  Colony.  And  as  we  make  no  ques- 
tion but  that  you  detest  and  (as  much  as  in  you  lyes)  have 
opposed  and  will  oppose,  such  traitorous  and  pernicious  pro- 
ceedings. So  we  have  thought  fit,  at  this  time,  to  signify  Our 
pleasure  unto  you  and  hereby  to  reqiiire  you  that  if  the  said 
Nath'l  Bacon,  or  any  of  his  Accomplices,  in  that  rebellion,  shall, 
for  their  safety  or  otherwise,  retreat  or  resort  into  your  Colony 
of  Maryland,  or  into  any  part  thereof,  you  cause  them  and  every 
of  them  to  be  forthwith  seized  and  secured  And  then  give  im- 
mediate notice  thereof  to  Our  Governor  or  Deputy  Governor 
of  Virginia,  to  the  End  such  further  course  may  be  taken  with 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  237 

them  as  the  law  shall  require  in  that  case.  So  not  doubting 
of  Yo''  Zeal  and  diligence  in  this  Our  Service,  so  much  conducing 
to  the  public  peace  and  welfare  of  Our  subjects,  as  well  in  Our 
said  Colony  of  Virginia  as  in  that  of  Maryland.  We  bid  you 
heartily  farewell.  Given  &c  the  last  day  of  September  1676  in 
the  28th  Year  of  Our  reign. 

To  our  right  trusty  and  wdbeloved.  Charles  Lord  Baltimore 
proprietor  of  Maryland  in  the  West  Indies,  or  the  Comander  in 
Chief  under  him  in  that  Colony. 

By  his  Ma*'*«  Comand 

H.  Coventry. 


Petition  of  Merchants  of  London  and  Bristol 
(Abstract) 

1676 
Petition  of  Merchants  of  London,  Bristol,  Plymouth 
&c.  importing  tobacco  and  sugars  from  Virginia  and  other 
Plantations  to  the  King.  Set  forth  the  inequalities  of  the 
duties  paid  in  England  and  Ireland  upon  tobaccos  imported 
from  Virginia  and  pray  for  relief. 

[Indorsed  by  Williamson,  1676.] 
(Colonial  Papers.  2  pp.) 


Papers  Concerning  Gregory  Walklett 
(Abstract) 

[End  of  1676?] 
"Entry  of  originall  Papers  concerning  Gregory  Walklett (*) 
in  Virginia." — 

Only  part  of  one  letter  to  Walklett  has  however  been  entered 
altho'  there  are  many  leaves  left  blank: — in  reference  to  his 

*-Af  ter  Bacon's  death  the  remnant  of  his  party  was  tinder  command  of 
Joseph  Ingram,  with  Gregory  Walklett  as  second  in  command.  They 
soon  surrendered  to  the  Governor  on  condition  that  their  lives  be  spared. 
This  was  done,  but  by  Act  of  Assembly  they  were  forbidden  to  hold 
any  office  in  Virginia. 


238  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

proposal  to  come  into  Gloster  with  a"  good  troop  of  horse  and 
arms,  he  is  advised  to  bring  them  to  Tindall's  point  and  there 
declare  for  the  King's  Majesty,  the  Governor  and  Country, 
when  he  shall  immediately  be  fetched  on  board  to  his  Honoiir 
(?  the  Governor  of  Virginia) 
(Colonial  Entry  Book  No.  81.  p.  501.) 

and  he  will  find  a  considerable  company  of  resolved  men  ready 
armed  to  assist  him,  the  writer  of  this  letter  amongst  them. 


Jan.  30,  1676-7 
Humphrey  Harwood  to  [the  Commissioners  for  Virginia?] 
Has  sent  up  all  the  sheep  belonging  to  John  Leucas  according 
to  their  warrant  and  taken  an  inventory  of  the  rest  of  his  per- 
sonal estate. 
(Colonial  Papers.  1.  p.) 


Sir  John  Berry  to  Sir  John  Werden. 
(Abstract) 

Feb.  2,  1676-7 

Sir  John  Berry  to  Sir  John  Werden.  The  Dartmouth  arrived 
yesterday  having  lost  company  of  the  fleet  of  Merchant  ships 
in  bad  weather.  Has  received  his  Maj.  Instructions  by  Capt. 
Temple  but  hoped  to  be  removed  hence  before  the  sickly  months 
of  Jime,  July  &c.  Sir  W.  Berkeley  of  opinion  to  keep  the 
Deptford  Ketch  till  the  arrival  of  his  Maj.  forces  and  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Assembly. 

P.  S.  The  Governor  has  upon  second  thoughts  issued  forth 
this  day  the  King's  printed  Proclamation  and  has  expected  18 
person  whose  names  or  crimes  the  Commiss"  do  not  yet  know. 
(Mem.  "This  (P.  S.)  was  designed  to  the  Duke's  Secretary, 
Sir  John  Werden,  but  remanded.' ')  3  pp. 
(Colonial  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  36-38) 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  339 

(Abstract) 

Feb.  21,  1676-7 
Gov.  Berkeley  to  Col.  Moryson.  Has  received  his  letter 
by  Capt.  Swann  and  will  do  as  he  requires  him  and  consult  with 
the  Assembly  and  not  only  with  them  but  with  the  other  Com- 
mis".  Thanks  God  he  is  so  perfectly  recovered  that  he  hopes 
to  go  for  England  with  the  first  ship. 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  p.  73.) 


(Abstract) 

Feb.  24,  1676-7 
Gov.  Berkeley  to  Col.  Moryson — Thinks  all  his  Maj. 
Commiss"  of  so  high  a  quality  that  he  writes  and  stiles  Col. 
Jeffreys  and  Sir  John  Berry  Right  Honorable  who  have  not  yet 
taken  it  ill  neither  does  Berkeley  while  he  is  the  King's  Governor. 
For  the  word  require  truly  he  knows  not  whether  it  were  desire 
or  not. — The  Burgesses  are  not  yet  half  met — the  Northern  & 
those  of  Accomack  being  kept  back  by  the  weather  to  the 
Governor's  great  charge.  "Col.  Moryson,  my  friend,  I  would 
fain  have  you  think  me  yours.' ' 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  76-7.) 


(Abstract) 
Swann's  Point,  James  City,  Feb.  27,  1676-7 

The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Thomas  Watkins — 
Desire,  upon  second  thoughts,  he  will  deliver  Sec.  Coventry's 
letter,  whose  Province  Virginia  is,  in  the  first  place  and  advise 
with  him  how  much  of  its  contents  may  be  communicated  to 
the  other  Ministers. 

The  Assembly  have  bcgvin  to  sit  and  the  Commissioners  have 
Ijrepared  a  letter  to  acquaint  them  with  the  cause  and  end  of 
their  coming  which  they  will  send  with  Answer  by  next  con- 
veyance. 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  95-6.) 


240  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

(Abstract) 

Feb.,  1676-7 

The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  the  Council  and 
Assembly  of  Virginia. — ^As  touching  his  Maj.  desire  for  peace 
with  the  Indians;  the  sole  power  of  peace  and  war  are  only  in- 
herent to  his  Maj.  Royal  prerogative  and  it  is  therefore  to  be 
understood  that  that  part  of  the  letter  is  not  before  the  Council 
and  Assembly  to  judge  or  determine  whether  it  be  fit  or  no, 
but  to  offer  their  best  judgments  as  to  what  means  shall  safely 
and  honorably  conduce  thereto  "and  no  further  are  you  to  con- 
cern yourselves  in  this  matter.'  *  As  to  the  salaries  of  the  Mem- 
bers of  Assembly,  his  Maj.  Instructions  are  peremptory  in  that 
particular  they  must  be  reduced  so  as  to  be  no  grievance  to 
the  Country.  These  two  Articles  to  be  recommended  partic- 
ularly to  the  Governor  as  appertaining  solely  to  his  Province. 
4  pp. 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  116-119.) 


(Abstract) 

Swann's  Point,  March  6,  1676-7 

The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Governor  Berkeley. 
They  find  not  only  by  former  complaints  but  by  Petitions  this 
day  before  them  that  several  illegal  seizures  have  been  made 
without  any  due  conviction  or  attainder.  Have  more  than  once 
protested  against  such  unwarrantable  proceedings  and  especially 
for  that  there  is  no  pretence  or  colour  for  such  kind  of  practises 
but  rather  of  restitution — Reasons — Hope  no  more  clamours  of 
this  kind  may  surround  them  here  nor  pursue  Berkeley  home 
to  England  to  obstruct  his  and  their  proceedings  for  the 
good  of  this  cotmtry  and  give  new  occasions  of  more  disturbances 
among  the  people.  3  pp. 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  120-122.) 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  241 

Order  of  Privy  Council  in  Regard  to  Money  in  England 
Belonging  to  Virginia 

On  the  26th  of  June  1677  their  Lo'p^  agree,  upon  a  report  to 
be  made  His  Ma*^  concerning  Moneys  raised  &  disposed  of, 
by  the  Assembly  of  Virginia  as  follows 

The    Right    Hon'ble    the    Lord 
Memorandum  Privy  Seal,  is  desired  by  the  Lords 

of  the  Committee  for  Trade  and 
Plantations  to  report,  unto  his  Ma*^  in  Council,  that  whereas 
their  Lordships  have  received  informations  from  Virginia  that  a 
very  considerable  Stun  of  Money  raised  there  in  the  Years  16 
and  16  and  deposited  in  England  for  a  Public  Stock,  to  be 
made  use  of  for  rewards  and  other  expences  to  such  as  were 
sent  as  Agents  from  the  said  Colony,  for  procuring  a  Charter 
from  his  Ma*^  and  other  public  uses,  has  been  for  the  greatest 
part  thereof;  by  the  late  Admiralty  (called  while  the  Country 
was  yet  remaining  imder  great  distractions  and  imcapable  of 
making  their  elections  after  the  usual  manner)  distributed  and 
disposed  of  by  bills  of  Exchange,  to  uses  which  may  prove  less 
agreeable  to  the  intentions  of  the  new  Assembly,  called  by  the 
Present  Governor.  Their  Lo'p^  are  therefore  most  humbly  of 
opinion,  that  in  regard  the  present  condition  of  this  Colony  is 
so  miserable  and  necessitous,  that  the  misapplication  of  so  con- 
siderable a  sum  of  money,  would  be  of  very  evil  consequence 
to  his  Ma*'*"  affairs,  and  re-setlement  of  the  Country,  the  Treas- 
urers now  in  England,  and  other  persons  who,  by  their  corre- 
spondences and  interests  are  nearly  concerned  herein,  may  be 
called  upon  and  examined  concerning  this  matter;  to  the  End 
his  Ma*y  may  be  enabled  to  give  such  Orders,  as  to  his  Wisdom 
shall  seem  meet. 

The  Sums  of  Money  and  Assingements  are  as  follows,  viz*. 


Green  Spring,  April  2d,  1677 
Honoured  Gentlemen, 

I  am  commanded  as  Clerk  of  the  Assembly  to  acquaint  your 
Honors  that  there  will  be  several  Bills  of  Exchange  drawn  upon 


242  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

you  for  satisfaction  of  the  Public  debts  to  the  value  of  two 
thousand  eight  hundred  ninety  five  pounds,  thirteen  shillings 
and  ten  pence.  The  persons  to  whom  the  money  is  due  do  im- 
mediately require  their  bills  and  I  suppose  will  send  them  for 
England  by  the  first  ships.  You  will  please  to  honoiir  them 
with  acceptance  and  payment  and  according  to  the  directions 
of  the  Order  of  Assembly  place  the  same  to  account. 

What  is  in  Col.  Parks  his  hands  according  to  his  Letters  and 
accompt.  to  the  Assembly  will  be  drawn  upon  him;  the  rest 
upon  M'  Secretary,  for  that  Col.  Morison  hath  informed,  it 
lyes  in  his  hands. 

I  am  most  honored  gentlemen 
Your  most  humble   servant 
Robert  Beverley,  CI.  Assemb. 
77 
teste 
Wm.  Davis. 


At  a  grand  Assembly  begim  at  Green  Spring. 

February  20th,  1677 
[Ordered] 
That  Major  Robert  Beverley,  as  clerk  of  the  Assembly  be, 
and  is  hereby  impowered,  to  draw  Bills  of  Exchange  upon  M'' 
Secy  Ludwell  and  Co'l  Daniel  Parke  for  such  sums  of  money 
as  are  ordered,  to  several  persons  by  this  Assembly.  And  that 
all  such  Bills  as  he  shall  draw  and  subscribe,  as  Clerk  aforesaid, 
be  punctually  paid,  according  to  the  tenour  of  the  same,  by 
M'  Sec^  Ludwell  or  Co'l  Daniel  Parke  out  of  the  moneys  in 
their  hands,  belonging  to  the  Country  and  they  thereof  dis- 
charged accordingly.  And  that  a  copy  of  this  Order,  attested 
by  the  Clerk  of  the  Assembly  and  produced  with  the  Bills 
drawn,  be  sufficient  advice  of  such  bills  and  justification  for 
payment  of  the  same. 

Robert  Beverley,  CI.  Assem. 
teste 

W.  Davis. 
The  Copy  of  what  I  have  formerly  sent  for  advice  by  Capt° 
Morris  and  Capt°  Ransom.  R.  B. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  243 

At  a  Grand  Assembly  begun  at  Green  Spring  the  20th  Feb- 
ruary 1676,  these  following  Sums  of  Money  were  ordered  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  Public  Moneys  in  England — viz*. 

£           s.  d. 

To  Capt°  George  Purvis 4 0 0 

To  the  Right  Hon'ble  S""  W-".  Berkleyl  g2g          g  jq 

for  disbursements J 

ToCol.Augustin  Warner  for  disbursem*'         13 11 11 

To  Capt'n  John  Martin 28 11 0 

To  Capt'n  Tho:  Gardner  for  expence  ofl  50          0  0 

Provisions ( 

To  Major  John  Page  for  account  of  Al- 1^  88          0  0 

derman  Jefferys j 

To  Capt"  John  Conset 5 5 0 

To  Capt°  Tho :  Laremer 50 0 0 

To  Capf^  Tho:  Gardner 50 0 0 

To  M'  John  Clough 10......     0 0 

To  Capt°  Tho:  Laremer  for  expence  ofl  60          0  0 

provisions j 

To  the  R*  Hon 'ble  S^W"".  Berkley  Gov'       500 0 0 

To  Major  William  White 1 6 8 

To  Capt"  Isaac  Foxcroft. 28 0 0 

To  Col.  Austin  Warner..... 40 0 0 

To  Co'l  Southy  Littleton 61 9.- 3 

To  Mris  Tabitha  Brown 15 11 8 

To  M'  John  Page 40 17 6 

To  Co'l  Geo.  Jordan 36 0 0 

To  M' James  Tubb 16 0 0 

To  Capt''  Daniel  Juniper  [Jenifer?] 24 2 0 

To  Major  Isaac  Alverton 28 16 0 

To  Major  William  Spencer 15 0 5 

To  Col.  Southy  Littleton  for  Hen:  Wag-1  112  0 

gaman j 

To  Rob*  Beverley     100 0 0 

To  Major  Gen'l  John  Custis 350 14 0 

To  Major  William  White 313 6 0 

To  Col' Tho:  Ballard 14 11 7 


244  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 


40 

80 

.    0 

-    0 

-      0 
0 

2895... 
5 

.  13 

.    0 

..     10 
-.      0 

2900... 

.  13 

..     10 

To  Co'l  Augustin  Warner ... 
To  Co'l  John  Washington 
Errors  excepted 


Rob*  Beverley  CI.  Assemb 2895 

To  M''  Sam  Wiseman,  since  the  above  s"^ 
orders  


Tis  possible,  divers  of  those  persons  may  assign  their  sums 
due  or  part  thereof,  to  others.  Of  which,  shall  give  intimation 
in  the  Bills  of  Exchange,  when  drawn.  Please  also  to  observe, 
that  by  several  Articles,  there  are  several  sums  due,  to  the  same 
persons  which  may  be  included  in  one  Bill  of  Exchange. 

R.  B.  CI.  Assem. 
teste 

W.  Davis. 

Whereupon  his  Ma*^  was  pleased  to  order  as  follows,  viz*. 

At  the  Court  at  Whitehall  11th  July,  1677 
Present 


The  King's  most  Excellent  Ma'ty  in  Council. 

The  R*  Hon'ble  The  Lords  of  the  Committee  of  this  Board 
for  Trade,  having  this  day  reported,  to  his  Ma}^  in  Coimcil, 
that  they  have  received  information  from  Virginia  that  a  very 
considerable  sum  of  money  raised  there,  in  the  years  1674  and 
1675  and  deposited  in  England,  for  a  Public  Stock  to  be  made 
use  of  for  rewards  and  other  Expences  to  such  as  were  sent  as 
Agents,  from  the  said  Colony  for  procuring  a  Charter,  from 
His  Ma*y  and  other  public  necessities  hath  been  for  the  great- 
est part  thereof,  by  the  late  Assembly  (called  while  the  Country 
was  yet  remaining  under  great  distractions  and  uncapable  of 
making  their  Elections  after  the  usual  manner)  distributed  and 
disposed  of,  by  bills  of  Exchange,  to  uses,  which  may  prove 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  245 

less  agreeable  to  the  Intentions  of  the  New  assembly,  called 
by  the  present  Governor;  It  was  upon  consideration  thereof, 
and  in  regard  the  present  condition  of  the  said  Colony,  is  so 
miserable  and  necessitous  that  the  misapplication  of  so  con- 
siderable a  sum  of  money  woiild  be  of  very  evil  consequence, 
to  his  Ma"^^  affairs  and  resetlement  of  the  Country,  Ordered 
by  his  Ma*y  in  Council,  that  Tho.  Ludwell  Esq'  and  Col 
Daniel  Parke  Treasurers  for  Virginia  be,  and  they  are  hereby 
required  to  attend  the  Board  concerning  the  matter  on  Friday 
next  the  13th  instant  at  ten  of  the  clock  in  the  Morning.  And 
that  in  the  mean  time  the  Treasurer  and  all  other  persons  who 
have  in  their  hands  any  public  Moneys  of  the  said  Colony, 
do  forbear  to  dispose  thereof,  notwithstanding  any  directions, 
they  have  received  from  the  Assembly  of  Virginia  for  that  pur- 
pose. 

A  true  Copy 

teste 

W.  Davis. 


At  the  Court  at  Whitehall  13th  July,  1677 
Present 
The  Kings  most  Excellent  Ma"^  in  Council. 

Whereas,  it  hath  been  represented  to  his  Ma*^  in  Council, 
that  a  very  considerable  Stun  of  Money  raised  in  Virginia  in 
the  years  1674  and  1675  and  deposited  in  England  for  a  Public 
Stock  to  be  made  use  of  for  the  Service  of  the  said  Colony  hath 
been  for  the  greatest  part  thereof,  by  the  late  Assembly  (called 
while  the  Country  was  yet  remaining  under  great  distractions 
and  uncapable  of  making  their  elections  after  the  usual  manner) 
distributed  and  disposed  of  by  Bills  of  Exchange  to  uses  which 
may  prove  less  agreable  to  the  Interests  of  the  New  Assembly, 
called  by  the  present  Governor.  His  Ma*^  taking  the  same 
into  consideration  and  designing  that  the  Moneys  so  collected 
and  remaining  in  the  Treasurer's  hands  shall  not  be  employed 
to  any  other  ends,  than  such  as  shall  most  conduce  to  the  ad- 
vantage and  settlement  of  that  Plantation  did  order  that  Thos. 
Ludwell  Esq.  &  Co'l  Daniel  Parke  Treasurers  for  Virginia  be, 
and  they  are  hereby  required  to  forbear  to  issue  out  or  dispose 


246  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

of,  the  said  Public  Moneys  to  any  Person  or  Persons  whatsoever 
without  receiving  His  Ma'''^^  Order  in  Council  for  the  same. 

A  true  Copy 
teste 

W.  Davis. 


(Abstract) 

March  6,  1676-7 
Petition  of  John  Dean  of  James  City  County,  Planter,  to  the 
Commis'^  for  Virginia.  Confessing  &  repenting  of  his  having 
taken  Bacon's  Oath  &  that  he  has  laid  hold  of  his  Maj.  pardon 
and  praying  remedy  against  Hartwell  for  seizing  his  whole  crop 
of  tobacco. — With  deposition  on  oath  annexed. 
(Colonial  Papers.  2.  pp.) 


(Abstract) 
Gov.    Berkeley   to   the    Commiss'rs   for   Virginia. 

May  7,  1676-7 
Has  received  their  letter  with  some  wonder  for  they  tell  him 
no  man's  estate  is  to  be  seized  for  treason  without  conviction 
which  he  knows  is  contrary  to  all  the  practise  of  all  Christen- 
dom— For  this  he  appeals  to  the  King  &  his  Council  &  his  learned 
Judges  of  the  Law — Besides  this  be  was  by  when  the  King 
seized  the  Estates  of  many  that  were  in  rebellion  against  him 
without  conviction. — Desires  them  to  take  a  List  of  what  he 
has  seized — The  case  of  Alex.  Walker  different,  he  voluntarily 
offered  it — Has  seized  nothing  since  the  King's  Commiss" 
came  in  and  what  is  seized  amounts  not  to  the  thirtieth  part  of 
his  lost  estate — Shall  give  the  King  &  his  Council  all  their  ad- 
monitory letters  to  him. 
(Col.  Entry  Book  No.  81.  pp.  123-4.) 


(Abstract) 

March  10,  1676-7 

Petition  of  John  Page  in  behalf  of  John  Jeffreys  to  his 

Maj.  Commissioners  for  grievances — For  payment  of  twenty 

pipes  of  wine  ordered  by  Sir  W.  Berkeley  for  his  Maj.  service  at 

the  rate  of  £8  per  pipe — with  Order  of  Assembly  thereon — 


VIRGINIA  IN  1676-1677.  247 

and  Opinion  of  said  Commissioners  referring  same  to  his  Maj. 

consideration  &  justice. 

(Colonial  Papers.  3  pp.) 

Copies  of  the  above  are  entered  in  Col.  Entry  Book  No.  80. 

pp.  202-5.) 


(Abstract) 
Memorandum  in  Regard  to  Petition  of  Wm.  Claiborne. 

March  13,  1676-7 
Mem.  [by  the  King's  Commiss"  for  Virginia]  that  the  Pe- 
tition of  William  Claiborne,  senior,  being  presented  to  them 
for  a  Grievance  to  be  laid  before  his  Maj .  royal  consideration ; — 
they  have  given  in  the  same  separately  as  an  affair  which  con- 
cerns a  whole  peculiar  Province  and  which  has  heretofore  been 
before  his  Maj.  Royal  Father  and  Privy  Council,  without  any 
decision  being  made  therein — It  is  now  again  humbly  tendered 
to  his  Majesty  to  determine,  and  to  remain  under  consideration 
till  such  time  as  the  persons  concerned  or  some  sent  over  by  the 
Pet"  shall  arrive  to  negotiate  the  same  in  England  "which  we 
are  not  empowered  or  concerned  to  do." 
(Colonial  Papers.) 


(Abstract) 

March  13,  1676-7 
Representation  of  the  Colony  and  Assembly  of  Vir- 
ginia— signed  by  W.  Claiborne — to  his  Maj.  Commiss"  for 
the  settlement  of  Virginia  in  these  troublesome  times  of  Re- 
bellion and  General  disturbances.  In  all  time,  since  the  dis- 
solution of  the  Virginia  Patent,  they  have  received  assurances 
under  the  broad  seal  of  England  and  many  Declarations  from 
the  then  King  that  their  estates  should  be  consented  and  in  no 
sort  prejudiced — During  which  time  the  petif  Col.  Claiborne 
hath  been  resident  in  Virginia  and  enjoyed  as  a  Councillor  and 
Secretary  of  State  there,  the  benefits  thereof.  And  by  virtue  of 
Commissions  under  his  Maj.  Government  &  seal  of  Virginia 
and  by  express  directions  from  the  Commissions  under  the 
broad  seal  of  England  did  discover  and  plant  the  isle  of  Kent — 
From  this  time  it  continued  under  the  government  of  Virginia 


248  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

and  men  arrested  at  the  isle  of  Kent  for  felonies  &c.  were  re- 
tiimed  to  appear  at  James  City — but  Lord  Baltemore's  officers 
came  &  expelled  us  by  force  of  arms  several  times  and  hanged 
oiir  men  without  trial  or  just  cause  given;  they  also  took  away 
our  goods,  servants  and  cattle  and  displanted  us  at  Palmer's 
Island,  out  of  their  limits  in  Susquehanah  river — All  this  they 
did  in  spite  of  his  Maj.  commands  to  the  contrary  not  to  molest 
us. 
(Colonial  Papers.) 

(To  be  Continued) 


VIRGINIA    GLEANINGS    IN   ENGLAND.  249 


VffiGINIA  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND 


Communicated  by  Mr.  Lothrop  Withington,  30  Little  Russell 
Street,  W.  C.  London,  (including  "Gleanings"  by  Mr.  H.  F. 
Waters,  not  before  printed.). 


George  Martin  of  Dublin  Esquire,  Doctor  of  Physicke. 

Will  29  July  1746 ;  proved  3  February  1755.     To  my  sister  Mrs. 

Letitia  Campbell  £100  for  herself  and  children.     To  John  son 

of  my  nephew  John  Gait  deceased  and  3  daughters  of  deceased 

£200.     To  Mrs.  Ann  Tombe  widow  £5  and  £1.  Is.  Od.  each 

Christmas  for  life  and  to  her  sister  Mrs.  Sarah  Tombe  £5.     To 

poor  of  Caple  Street  Meeting  £5.     To  my  relation  and  servant 

Alexander  Stewart  of  Woodtowne  county  Meath  my  interest 

in  lands  of  KUcoskin  and  £40  to  stock  the  same.     To  Andrew 

Stewart  of  Milltown  £5.     To  neice  Agnes  Cunningham  widow, 

household  goods  in  house   she  holds  from  me  in  Mary  Lane 

Dublin  which  I  distrained  for  aiTears  of  rent  and  all  rent  she 

owes  me.     To  cousin  Samuel  Martin  of  London  Esq  and  nephew 

Samuel  Campbell  Esq  £10  each.     Lands  in  Milltown  county 

Meath,  charged  with  £400  for  children  of  my  Brother  James 

Martin  as  follows,  nephew  John  Martin  £100,  neice  Agnes 

Cimningham  £200,  niece  Letitia  Thomas  £100,  to  be  held  in 

trust  by  Samuel  Martin  and  Samuel  Campbell  for  my  Brother 

Colonel  John  Martin  and  his  heirs.     Executor:  Brother  John 

Martin.     Witnesses:    Tho:    Pageitt,    Richd    Thwaites,    Ben: 

Johnston,  N.  P. 

Prerogative   Court   of    Ireland 

will  book  1754-5  fo. 

[Col.  William  Byrd  describing  his  return  from  his  "Progress  to  the 
Mines"  (Governor  Spotswood's  iron-works  at  Germanna)  tells  of  a 
night  spent  at  the  home  of  Col.  John  Martin,  in  Caroline  County  about 
eight  miles  from  Caroline  C.  H.  and  four  miles  from  the  Mattapony 
River  at  Norman's  Ford.  During  a  long  talk  at  night,  says  Byrd,  "We 
were  forced  to  go  as  far  as  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  to  help  out  our  con- 
versation. There,  it  seems,  the  Colonel  had  an  elder  brother,  a  physi- 
cian, who  threatens  him  with  an  estate  sometime  or  other."  That  the 
doctor  kept  his  promise  is  shown  by  the  will  printed  above.  For  a  note 
on  Col.  John  Martin,  see  this  Magazine  XIII,  197-199.) 


250  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Richard  Chichester  [late  of  Virginia  beyond  seas,  deceased — 
Probate  Act].  Will  16  May,  1743;  proved  15  March,  1745-6. 
To  Wife  Ellen  Chichester  my  Negro  Wench,  Barbara  and  Mo- 
latto  Girl  Hannah,  with  their  Increase,  and  my  Negro  Boy 
Prince,  likewise  my  Chair  and  Sorrel  Horses  belonging  to  it, 
and  my  Horse  Rover,  and  her  Saddle  and  Furniture.  Also  to 
my  wife  £500  Sterling  out  of  Estate  in  England,  also  use  of 
Plantations  where  I  live  known  by  name  of  "  Fairweathers" 
with  Stocks,  use  of  eight  working  Negroes  during  widowhood, 
and  after  her  marriage  or  death,  said  Plantations,  &c.,  to  Son 
Richard  Chichester.  To  Son  John  Chichester  my  Plantation  in 
Lancaster  County,  known  by  the  Name  of  "Newsoms"  and 
six  good  Negroes,  Stock,  &c.  To  my  four  Daughters,  Elizabeth, 
Ellen,  Mary,  and  Hannah,  each  £500  sterHng  at  marriage  or 
age  of  21,  &c.,  also  to  each  a  Negroe  to  wait  on  them.  To  Son 
John  Chichester  Black  Stone  Horse  called  "Potomack"  and 
my  big  Grey  Colt  "Jugler"  (or  Ingler),  Household  goods  in 
England  to  Sons  John  and  Richard.  All  Plate,  Rings,  Clocks, 
Jewells,  &c.  in  England  or  Virginia  to  wife  and  children.  If 
wife  with  child,  and  a  son  to  him  at  21  £1,000,  and  if  a  daughter 
£500,  &c.  To  son  Richard  Chichester  £500  sterling  out  of 
Estate  in  England,  to  Son  John  Chichester,  all  Estate,  real  and 
personal,  in  England.  To  Son  Richard  Chichester  all  Land, 
Negroes,  &c.  in  Virginia  not  disposed  of,  &c.  To  son  John 
Chichester  his  Estate  at  21 .  Executtrix :  Wife  Ellen  Chichester. 
Executor:  Son  John  Chichester.  Trustees:  Joseph  Carter, 
Robert  Mitchell,  and  Joss.  Ball,  Gentlemen,  to  manage  for  sons 
John  and  Richard  Chichester.  Witnesses :  Joseph  Carter,  Ann 
Carter,  Gawen  Lawry,  Michael  Dillon.  Proved  in  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury  by  John  Tucker  and  Richard  Tucker, 
Esqrs.,  Attorneys  for  Ellen  Chichester,  widow,  mother  of 
John  Chichester,  a  minor,  till  of  age.  Administration  28 
May  1763  to  Richard  Chichester  brother  and  one  of  the 
executors  of  John  Chichester,  deceased,  the  son  and  executor 
of  said  Richard  Chichester  late  of  Virginia  deceased,  the 
wife  Ellen  Chichester  having  formerly  renounced  and  said 
John  surviving  the  testator  but  himself  dying  before  taken 
as  executor  and  the  grant  to  Richard  Tucker  and  John  Tucker 


VIRGINIA    GLEANINGS    IN   ENGLAND.  251 

expiring  by  reason  of  John  attaining  17  years.  Administration  9 
June,  1803  of  Richard  Chichester  of  Virginia,  deceased, 
to  WilHam  Murdock,  as  to  administration  (with  will  annexed) 
of  the  son  John  Chichester,  deceased,  as  to  goods  left  unadmin- 
istered  by  his  brother  Richard  Chichester,  also  deceased, 
for  use  of  Sarah  Chichester,  Widow,  relict  and  executrix  of 
will  of  said  Richard  Chichester,  now  residing  in  the  County 
of  Fairfax  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  Ellen  Chichester,  widow,  having  formerly 
deceased,  and  administration  to  Richard  Tucker  and  John 
Tucker,  Esqrs.  having  ceased  by  John  Chichester  having  at- 
tained seventeen  years,  &c. 

Edmunds,  79. 

[The  Virginia  branch  of  the  ancient  and  wide-spread  English  family  of 
Chichester  has  been  recently  authoritatively  traced  to  its  English  source. 
At  Raleigh,  Arlington,  Hall  and  elsewhere  in  Devon,  and  in  Ireland,  the 
family  was  of  note.  A  "History  of  the  Chichester  Family"  by  Sir  A.  P. 
B.  Chichester,  Bart.  (London,  1871)  is  in  the  library  of  this  Society, 
presented  by  Captain  Arthur  Mason  Chichester  of  Leesburg,  Va.  An 
account  of  the  Virginia  Chichesters  may  be  found  in  Hayden's  "Vir- 
ginia Genealogies,"  pp.  91-95,  106-109.  An  abstract  of  the  will  of 
Richard  Chichester,  the  emigrant,  (proved  June  12,  1734,  in  Lancaster 
County,  Va.)  is  given  on  page  93. 

Following  is  an  account  of  the  Widworthy  branch  of  the  family  from 
which  the  Virginia  line  came.  It  began  with  John  Chichester,  third 
son  of  John  Chichester,  of  Raleigh. 

John  Chichester,  son  of  John  Chichester  of  Raleigh  and  Johanna 
Brett,  inherited  from  his  father  the  Manor  of  Widworthy.  He  married 
November  6,  1538,  Katherine,  daughter  of  Thomas  Piard  of  Taustock, 
Devon. 

John  Chichester  of  Widworthy,  eldest  son  of  John  Chichester  and  Kath- 
erine Piard,  buried  at  Widworthy,  February  19,  1609.  Will  proved 
Archdeacon's  Court,  1609;  married  Doroth}^  daughter  of  Hugh  Dau- 
beney  of  Waxford,  Somerset.  Buried  at  Widworthy  the  18th  of  Octo- 
ber, 1598. 

Hugh  Chichester  of  Widworthy,  eldest  son  of  John  Chichester  and 
Dorothy  Daubeney,  baptized  at  Widworthy  June  7,  1573;  buried  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1641  at  Widworthy;  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Richard 
Duke,  of  Otterton,  County  Devon. 

Richard  Chichester,  oldest  son  and  heir  of  Hugh  Chichester  and 
Martha  Duke,  baptized  at  Widworthy,  June  13,  1600,  died  in  his  father's 
life  time,  buried  at  Widworthy  17th  of  March,  1G3S;  married  Joan, 
daughter  of  John  Smithes  of  Kington,  County  Somerset;  married  at 
Kington  22nd  of  May,  1625;  buried  at  Widworthy  5th  of  August,  1643. 

John  Chichester  of  Widworthy,  heir  to  his  grand-father,  Hugh,  bap- 
tized at  Widworthy  11th  of  October,  1626,  buried  June  11,  1061;  will 
dated  June  3,  1661;  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Ware  of  Haller- 
ton  and  Silverton,  County  Devon,  and  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Dart  of  Silverton. 


252  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

John  Chichester  of  Widworthy,  eldest  son  of  John  Chichester  and 
Margaret  Ware,  born  1649,  buried  at  Widworthy  25th  of  October,  1702. 
Will  dated  29th  of  April,  1693;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
Court  of  Lillisdon,  buried  at  Widworthy,  December  7,  1711.  Had  no 
issue. 

Richard  Chichester,  second  son  of  John  Chichester  of  Widworthy  and 
Margaret  Ware,  bom  at  Silverton  tlie  5th  of  March,  baptized  the  16th 
of  March,  1657;  married  Anna  — ;  came  to  Virginia  in  1702,  bringing  with 
him  his  son  John.  He  married  a  second  wife  in  Virginia,  Anna  China 
nee  Fox;  bought  lands  in  Lancaster  County.     Will  dated  April  14,  1734. 

John  Chichester,  son  of  Richard  Chichester  and  Anna  — ,  baptized  at 
Widworthy,  May  10,  1681,  died  in  Virginia,  1728.  Married  Elizabeth 
Symes  of  Dorset,  England,  buried  at  Powerstock,  Dorset,  January, 
1728. 

Richard  Chichester,  son  of  John  Chichester  and  Elizabeth  Symes, 
died  in  England,  December  30,  1743,  buried  at  Powerstock,  January  3rd. 
Married  July  3,  1734,  Ellen  Ball,  daughter  of  Col.  William  Ball  and  Han- 
nah Beale,  and  lived  at  "Fairweathers,"  Lancaster  County,  Virginia.] 

William  Williamson  [of  St.  Mary,  Whitechapel,  Middle- 
sex-Probate Act  Book]  of  London,  Merchant.  Will  10  Feb- 
ruary 1722-3;  proved  24  February  1722-3.  To  be  buried 
with  my  parents  in  Foulford  Church  Yard,  County  of  York, 
under  a  plaine  Stone  with  only  my  name  and  age  engraven,  for 
such  interment  £100  to  be  laid  out,  and  if  not  laid  out  residue 
to  poore  of  Foulford.  "Item.  I  order  and  Direct  that  all  my 
just  Debts  be  fully  paid  and  Satisfied.  Item.  I  give,  devise, 
and  bequeath  unto  William  Welch,  Natural  Son  of  Susamiah 
Welch,  of  Nancemond  County  in  Virginia,  widow,  all  my  right, 
title,  and  Interest  at,  in,  or  to  one  Stone  house.  Situate  and  be- 
ing in  Hampton  Town  in  Elizabeth  Citty  and  County  in  Vir- 
ginia, with  land,  &c.,  now  supposed  to  be  in  possession  of  Ed- 
ward Kearney,  being  recorded  in  said  County  Court  and  my 
Title  in  hands  of  said  Edward  Kearney.  Also  to  said  William 
Welch  £100  to  be  put  out  at  interest  by  my  Executor  in  Great 
Britain  and  profits  paid  annually  to  Virginia  till  he  is  21,  &c., 
but  if  he  die  said  legacy  to  my  Sister  Annoball  Newhan  of  Foul- 
fard.  Widow,  her  son  Jonas  Annobell,  her  Daugthers  Alice  and 
EUinor,  Annaball,  &c.  To  my  god  son  Francis  Robinson  £10 
to  be  paid  to  his  father  John  Robinson  of  London,  Gentlemen. 
To  said  John  Robinson  and  his  present  wife  Frances  £10  apiece. 
To  George  Capper  of  London,  Sadlier,  and  wife  Ellen,  ditto. 
To  Elizabeth  Newnham  of  London,  Spinster,  ditto.  To  my 
Nephew  William  Stavele,  of  Foulforth  aforesaid,  all  my  Garden 


VIRGINIA    GLEANINGS   IN   ENGLAND.  253 

and  Tract  in  Lordship  of  Gate  Foulforth  known  by  name  of 
Dilwod  Croft,  £  100  at  21 ,  &c.  And  if  he  dies  to  his  brother,  &c. 
To  Sister  Rebecca  Patrick  of  City  of  York,  Widow,  £100.  To 
my  Niece  Elizabeth  Wade  £100. 

Richmond,  41. 

Peter  Hooker  of  London,  Tallow  chandler  intending  to 
voyage  to  Virginia  in  the  good  shipp  called  the  Globe  of  London. 
Will  6  August  1636;  proved  22  November  1639.  To  the  poor 
of  Chilcombe  cotmty  Southampton  20s.  To  my  Aimt  Stroud 
£5  out  of  my  adventure.  To  my  imcle  Egers  children  20s. 
a-piece  out  of  my  Adventure.  To  my  Cosen  Anne  Hooker  my 
tmcle  Richard's  daughter  £3  out  of  Adventure.  To  her  brother 
Richard  40s.  To  Henry  Hooker  my  imcle  Peter's  son  40s.  at 
21  years.  To  his  brother  Nicholas  the  like  sum.  To  Sibell 
Hooker  my  imcle  Peter's  daughter  20s.  To  Richard  Wood's 
children  Hannah,  John  and  Samuel  20s.  apiece.  I  give  to  my 
brother  John  Hooker  all  my  goods  that  I  left  in  his  hands  and 
£30  to  be  paid  out  of  my  Adventure.  If  my  brother  John  die 
before  the  legacy  is  due  to  be  paid  then  to  his  son  John  Hooker. 
If  both  hap  to  dye  then  to  my  executor  or  his  children.  I  con- 
stitute my  beloved  brother  Edward  Hooker  my  executor  to 
whom  I  bequeath  the  residue  of  my  Estate.  I  intreate  my  uncle 
Edward  Hooker  and  my  cosen  John  Wood  to  be  my  Overseers 
to  them  10s  apiece  for  to  buye  a  paire  of  gloves. 
Witnesses :  Edwd  Hooker,  Richd  Potter,  George  Stratton. 

Harvey,  187. 

Robert  Dinwiddie,  Esq.  formerly  of  Colony  of  Virginia 
in  North  America,  but  late  of  the  City  of  Bristoll,  Esq.,  deceased. 
Will  proved  9  October  1770— Probate  Act  Book. 


254  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 


COUNCIL  PAPERS  1698-1700. 


(From  the  original  volume  in  the  Virginia  State  Library) 


(continued) 


Order  in  Regard  to  Letters  of  Denization 

At  the  Court  at  Kensington 
s.s.  .the  18th  of  January  1699 

Present 

The  Kings  most  Excellent  Maj*'^  In  Council 

Upon  Reading  this  Day  at  y«  Board  a  report  from  M""  Attor- 
ney &  M""  Solicitor  Generall  In  y**  words  following. 

May  it  Please  yo^  Maj''^ 

In  Obedience  to  their  Excellencies  y'^  Lords  Justices  ord""  of 
reference  in  Councill  the  3*^  of  Novemb""  1698,  Wee  have  Consid- 
ered of  y''  anexed  representation  of  y''  Councill  of  Trade  and  thee 
papers  thereunto  anexed  relateing  to  y''  granting  of  Letters  of 
Denization  by  y*^  Governors  in  y*'  plantations,  and  by  y*^  presi 
dents  Shewed  unto  us  wee  find  y*"  usall  Method  of  granting  Deni- 
zation in  the  plantations  hath  been  by  Acts  of  Assembly  of  w''^ 
Sev'll  Instances  have  been  Shewed  to  us.  Viz*  By  an  Act  passed 
In  y«  Gen'll  Assembly  of  y'^  Province  of  Maryland  y''  10th  of 
June  1697  Stephen  ffrancis  an  Italian  and  George  Slaumbe  a 
German  were  Naturalized  and  thereby  Vested  with  all  y^  Rights 
and  Privileges  of  naturall  born  Subjects  of  y*^  province  and  y* 
there  by  another  act  passed  in  the  Same  Assembly  y'"  30th  of 
March  1698,  one  Peter  Dowdee  a  frenchman  was  in  Like  manner 
Naturalized  But  in  both  the  said  Acts  there  is  an  Express  pro- 
visoe  y*  they  Shall  not  be  Constructed  to  Enable  or  qualify  y^  s"^ 
Persons  to  hold  or  enjoy  any  place  office  Calling  or  Employ- 
ment prohibited  by  an  Act  of  Parhamcnt  jnade  In  y^  7'''  &  8''' 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  255 

Years  of  your  Maj*'  Reign  for  preventing  frauds  and  regula- 
ting Abuses  in  y^  Plantations  trade  or  any  other  Statute  Law 
In  England. 

And  Wee  Likewise  find  that  in  November  1697,  Coll:  Benja- 
min ffletcher  then  Gove""  of  the  Pro\'ince  of  New  York  Did 
Grant  Letters  of  Denization  und""  y^  Seale  of  y*  s"^  Province 
unto  one  Arnold  Nodine  a  Foreigner  in  which  Grant  there  is  a 
Clause  to  Enable  y^  s'*  Nodine  to  take  &  hold  Lands  Tenem** 
hereditam*^  &c.  to  himself  his  heirs  and  Assignes  In  fee  Simple 
w***  power  to  Sue  and  be  Sued,  and  to  enjoy  all  other  rights  and 
Priviledges  as  a  naturall  bom  Subject  of  y*  Province  w*''  out  any 
Restriction  or  regard  to  y^  s"*  Act  of  Navigation  or  any  other 
Statute  of  England,  But  wee  do  not  find  y*  y*  s'*  Coll :  ffletcher 
had  any  Express  power  by  his  Comissions  to  grant  any  Letter 
of  Denization. 

And  Wee  are  humbly  of  Opinion  y*  y^  Gov"  of  y«  plantations 
ought  not  to  grant  Letters  of  Denizations  unless  they  were  Ex- 
pressly Authorized  So  to  do  by  their  Comissions  and  y'  noe 
Acts  of  Denization  or  Naturalization  in  any  of  y^  plantations 
will  qualifie  any  person  to  be  master  of  a  ship  w*''  in  any  of  y* 
Statutes  made  in  this  Kingdom  w"^  require  masters  of  Ships  to 
be  Englishmen. 

All  which  is  most  humbly  Submitted 
to  yo""  Maj^'  Royall  Wisdom. 
Tho:  Trevor 
Jno  Hawles 

His  Maj''^  in  Councill  approveing  y^  representation  Is  Pleased 
to  ord""  y*  Letters  of  Denization  be  not  Granted  by  any  of  y« 
Gover"  of  his  Maj*'*  Plantations  otherwise  then  according  to  y* 
Opinion  of  M'  Attumy  and  M^  Solicitor  Gen  11  Sett  forth  in 
their  s**  report  and  the  Lords  Comissioners  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations are  to  give  notice  of  his  Maj''^  Pleasure  herein  to  y*"  Re- 
spective Gov"  of  his  maj''*  plantations'accordingly — 

John  Povey 

A  true  Copy  Examined  by  y^ 
Originall  in  y*"  hands  of  y*'  L**" 
Com"  for  trade  and  Plantations 
Wm.  Popple. 


256  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

1699 

White  hall  ffeb'ry  y«  16*^^  

S'  1700 

His  Maj"^  having  been  pleased  by  ord''  In  Council  of  y^  IS*'' 
of  Jan'ry  Last,  to  require  us  to  Signifie  his  pleasure  unto  y^ 
respective  Gov"  of  his  plantations  America  relateing  to  y^  grant- 
ing of  Letters  of  Denization  by  y^  s**  Gov"  in  y®  s"^  plantations 
wee  Send  you  here  inclosed  a  Copy  of  y®  s*^  ord"'  for  yo"^  Direction 
and  Goverment  in  y''  behalfe  So  bid  you  heartily  farewell. 
Yo""  very  Loveing  fifriends 

Stamford 

Lexington 

Ph:  Meadows 

WiUiam  Blathwayt 

John  Pollexf  en 

Abr.  Hill 

George  Stepney. 


Order  in  Regard  to  a  Pirate 

ffeb'ry  2V^ 


1699 


1700 
A  Letter  having  been  Comunicated  to  us  from  one  Henry 
Mimday  Comand""  of  a  merch*^  Ship  Called  y®  John  Hopewell 
of  London,  to  his  owners  dated  upon  y®  Coast  of  Guinea  in 
Novemb''  Last  wherein  he  gives  an  account  of  his  haveing  been 
plundered  by  a  Pyrate  named  Henry  King  who  formerly  used  y^ 
Pen  Silvania  trade  and  of  nine  of  his  owne  men  haveing  forsaken 
him  and  run  away  w***  y^  s"^  Pyrate  wee  Send  you  here  inclosed 
a  List  of  their  names  y*  if  any  of  y'm  happen  to  Come  into  your 
Goverm*  you  may  Cause  y'm  to  be  apprehended  and  take  Such 
Care  for  bringing  y'm  to  Condign  punishment  as  by  his  Maj''° 
has  been  directed. 

Memd'm 
Coll.   Nicholson 

The  name  of  the  Pyrate  v;*'^  is  mentioned  is  Henry  King. 


COUNCIL  PAPERS.  257 

and  ye  names  of  Nicholas      Gillefrand,     John 

M''  Munday's  Burton,       Leonard      Rawlings, 

men  y*  went  w*^**  Edward    Arterberry,    Emanuel 

y®  Pyrate  are :  a     Portugeze,     John     Sanders, 

Wm.  Parker  of  Sunderland, 
John  Harris  of  London,  ffrancis 
Brown  a  negro. 


Secretary  Vernon  to  Governor  Nicholson. 

Whitehall  June  29'^  1700 
S' 

The  Duke  of  Shrewesbury  having  obtained  his  Ma'^^  Leave  to 
resigne  his  Office  of  Lord  Chamberlaine  of  his  Ma'*'  Houshold, 
by  reason  of  his  want  of  health  to  attend  y*  same,  His  Maj  ***  has 
been  pleased  to  conferr  y*  Office  on  y«  Earl  of  Jersey  His  Ma'* 
not  haveing  yet  appointed  One  to  Succeed  in  the  Place  of  Secre- 
tary of  State,  It  will  be  my  Part  in  the  interim  to  correspond  w**^ 
you  in  what  may  relate  to  y*  Service  of  his  Maj*'^  &  the  PubHck. 
In  the  Discharge  whereof  I  shaU  upon  all  Occasions  endeavour 
to  assure  you  that  I  am 
S' 

Y'  most  faithfull 
himible  servant 

Ja  Vernon 
Coll:  Nicholson. 


Lords  of  the  Admiralty  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia. 

Admiralty  Office  21"^  June  1700 
S' 

You  will  herew"*  receive  sevrall  passes  to  be  disposed  of  as 
y*  inclosed  Instruccon  from  my  L**'  of  y*  Admiralty  direct  for 
y*  secureing  of  Ships  &  Vessells  of  his  Ma''*"  Subjects  from  y* 
Algerines,  and  for  yo""  better  guidance  how  to  fill  up  y*  Blanks 
in  y*  s"^  passes  I  send  you  one  of  y'm  so  filled  up  for  a  Sample 


258  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

You  will  alsoe  receive  in  y^  box  w*^  y*  passes  sevrall  Oathes 
&  bonds  some  of  w*'''  Oathes  are  for  English  built  Shipps  &  y« 
rest  for  forreigne  built  Ships  made  free  &  part  of  y®  bond  are  for 
Ships  trading  Coastwise  in  y^  plantacons  the  other  for  such  as 
trade  from  y*  plantacons  to  Europe,  Samples  of  w"**  Oathes  & 
bonds  w***  y^  Blanks  filled  up  I  send  you  for  yo''  guidance  in  y« 
doing  thereof  before  you  fill  up  or  deliver  y*  passes. 

And  whereas  you  will  find  by  y^  Instructons  that  a  Registary 
must  be  sent  to  this  Office  of  all  passes  delivered  out  by  you,  I 
send  you  likewise  a  Scheme  shewing  in  w*  manner  y«  s*^  Registry 
is  to  be  kept  I  desire  you'll  owne  y*  receipt  thereof  &  remaine. 
S' 

Yo"'  most  humble  Serv* 

Burchett 
To  y^  Govern''  of  Virg'a. 

By  y*  Com"  for  Executeing  y*"  Ofhce  of  L''  High  Admiral  of 
England,  Ireland  &c. 

Instructions  to  ffrancis  Nicholson,  Esq'  Govemoiir  of  Vir- 
ginia, our  Vice  Admirall,  and  to  the  Govemour  or  Comander 
in  chief e  there  for  the  time  being. 

Whereas  his  Maj*^  by  his  Order  in  Councill  Dated  y*'  6*^  of 
this  present  Moneth  of  June  hath  been  pleased  to  direct  that 
Passes  shall  be  sent  to  y^  respective  Govemours  or  Comanders 
in  Chiefe  of  his  Plantations  &  to  y*  Collectors  of  his  Customes  in 
such  Plantations  in  America  as  are  under  proprietors  &  Charter 
Govemm*^  as  also  to  y*  severall  Consvds  in  Portugal,  Spaine  * 
Italy  in  order  to  their  being  distributed  by  y'm  from  time  to 
time  to  such  Ships  &  Vessells  of  his  Maj*'"^  Subjects  as  shall  be- 
long to  these  Plantacons  or  Governments  respectively,  or  come 
into  y^  Ports  of  the  afores*^  Kingdomes  for  securing  them  from  y* 
Ships  of  Algiers.  Wee  do  therefore  herew*^^  send  you  sevrall  of 
y*  s*^  passes  &  direct  &  require  you  to  goveme  yourselfe  in  the 
disposall  of  y*  same  &  such  others  as  shall  from  time  to  time  be 
sent  you  according  to  y'  rules  hereafter  prescribed,  (viz*.) 

P*  The  aforesaid  Government  of  Algiers  having  given  no 
longer  time  than  to  September  next  for  all  Shipps  belonging  to  his 
Maj"*^  Subjects  their  being  provided  w*''  Passes  &  declared  that 
such  as  shall  be  mett  w*''  bv  their  Cruisers  without  Passes  after 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  259 

that  time  shall  be  carried  up  &  their  Goods  confiscated.  You  are 
therefore  imediately  upon  yo""  receipt  hereof,  to  give  notice  of  y' 
same  to  all  persons  concerned  w**"  in  the  District  of  yo'  Govemm* 
that  so  they  may  take  care  to  provide  themselves  with  passes  for 
security  of  their  Tracfe  &  Navigation,  not  only  from  his  Ma*'^' 
Plantations  to  Europe,  but  from  one  plantation  to  another,  and 
accordingly  You  are  to  deliver  Passes  to  all  such  Shipps  &  Ves- 
sells  as  shall  appear  to  you  to  be  qualified  to  trade. 

2 — That  you  are  to  take  care  that  no  such  Pass  be  given  for 
any  Shipp  or  Vessell,  imless  you  are  satisfied  that  she  is  at  the 
same  time  in  some  port,  or  place  within  the  District  of  yo' 
Government. 

3 — Nor  is  any  such  Pass  to  be  given,  untiU  y^  Master  of  y* 
Shipp  or  Vessell  for  which  it  is  demanded  has  made  Oath,  eithe^ 
before  yo''selfe  or  some  person  within  yo''  Govemm*,  who  has 
power  to  administer  y*  Same,  that  he  hath  no  other  Pass,  or 
in  case  he  has  any,  untill  such  former  Pass  be  delivered  up. 

4 — And  before  y^  Delivery  of  any  Pass  every  Master  is  to 
give  Bond  to  you  for  his  Maj''^^  use,  with  one  good  Surety  in  y* 
sume  of  one  hundred  pounds  Sterling  Penalty  if  the  Shipp  or 
Vessell  appeare  to  be  above  one  hundred  Tuns  for  the  rctume 
&  delivery  of  his  Pass  to  y^  L**  high  Admirall,  or  Com"  for  Exe- 
cuteing  y«  Office  of  Lord  high  Admirall  for  the  time  being,  or  to 
yo*"  selfe  or  some  other  person  entrusted  w***  the  delivering  out  of 
Passes  within  the  time,  or  according  to  the  other  Conditions 
exprest  in  the  following  Article — And  for  yo'  better  guidance 
herein,  wee  send  you  Termes  of  Severall  printed  Bonds  & 
Oathes,  with  one  of  each  kind  shewing  in  what  manner  they  are 
to  be  filled  up. 

5 — That  y^  Passes  for  all  Shipps  entring  Outwards  in  any  of 
his  Maj*'''^  Plantations  Coastwise,  or  for  any  other  of  his  Ma*''*' 
Plantations  do  continue  in  force  for  one  year  and  no  longer; 
and  all  passes  for  Shipps  entring  Outwards,  in  y*  s^  Plantations 
for  Africa,  or  Europe  are  to  determine  either  at  y"  Expiration 
of  One  yeare,  or  upon  their  retume  &  being  unloaden  in  any  of 
his  Maj'''^"  Plantations  or  their  arrivall,  &  being  unloaden  in 
some  part  of  England,  Wales  or  Berwick  upon  Tweed  according 
as  it  shall  first  happen.     And  the  aforementioned  Bonds  are  to 


260  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

be  filled  up  for  the  delivering  up  of  y«  s*^  Passes  at  the  expiration 
of  such  Terme  or  Voyage  accordingly,  with  a  Saveing  to  the 
Master  &  others  concem'd  in  case  of  Capture  or  Shipwreck. 
And  whereas  it  may  so  happen  that  a  Shipp  or  Vessell  receiveing 
a  pass  from  y®  Govemour  or  Comander  in  Cheife  of  any  of 
his  Maj"®^  plantations,  or  other  person  intrusted  with  the  de- 
livery of  passes  may  not  have  opportimity  of  delivering  up  that 
pass  to  y*  person  from  whom  he  rec'd  the  same,  &  gave  Bond 
to,  in  case  the  said  pass  shall  be  delivered  within  the  time  limit- 
ted  by  the  aforegoing  Article  to  any  other  person,  who  is  appoin- 
ted to  deliver  out  passes  the  s^  person  is  to  give  a  Certificate  to 
the  Master  of  y*  Ship  or  Vessell  that  he  had  returned  y«  pass  to 
him,  upon  proceeding  of  which  Certificate  to  y®  person  to  whom 
y«  Bond  was  given,  the  s^  Bond  is  to  be  delivered  up  And  you 
are  accordingly  to  take  notice  of  &  to  cause  it  to  be  put  in  Execu- 
tion as  far  forth  as  it  relates  to  you. 

6 — ^You  are  to  take  particular  Care  that  a  perfect  Register  be 
kept  by  you  of  every  pass  you  deliver  out,  in  pursuance  of  y® 
aforegoing  Directions  according  to  y^  Scheme  hereimto  annexed. 
Transcripts  of  w'^^  Register  you  are  quarterly  to  transmitt  to 
this  Office  in  Order  to  y*  makeing  up  one  entire  Register  &  Al- 
phabett  of  passes  given  out  from  his  Majestyes  plantations. 

7 — ^And  it  being  his  Maj*'^^  pleasure,  that  for  y^  better  pre- 
venting any  indirect  use,  or  Misapplication  of  y^  s"^  passes,  y° 
Govemours,  Comanders  in  Cheife  &  Collectors  in  y^  sevrall 
plantations  (mencioned  in  y«  paper  hereimto  annexed)  shall  by 
every  oppertunity  comunicate  to  each  other  y^  like  Trans- 
cript of  y*  Registers  of  passes.  You  are  to  take  care  to  comply 
with  the  same  accordingly. 

8 — And  his  Maj*'^°  having  further  declared  his  pleasure  that 
these  passes  shall  be  delivered  gratis,  &  y*  neither  the  Masters 
or  Owners  of  such  Ships  or  Vessells  as  receive  y^  same,  shall  be 
put  to  further  Charge  on  any  consideration  whatsoever,  than 
that  of  twelve  pence  for  each  as  his  Maj""  due  for  the  Stamp, 
You  are  to  take  perticular  y*  y^  same  be  strictly  complyed  with 
and  to  demand  from  y«  Masters  of  all  such  Ships  &  Vessells, 
who  shall  receive  Passes  from  you,  as  often  as  you  do  deliver  y® 
same  to  them,  one  shilling  for  y'^  Stamp  for  his  Maj*'®*  use,  and 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  261 

transmitt  an  accoxint  thereof  from  time  to  time  to  our  Secretary, 
and  you  are  also  to  take  effectual  care  for  sending  y®  s^  money 
by  all  convenient  oppertimities  to  this  Office. 

Lastly — You  are  likewise  further  required  to  give  us  early 
Notice  from  time  to  time,  when  it  may  be  necessary--  to  send  unto 
you  supplys  of  passes  that  so  y®  same  may  be  dispatched  to  you 
accordingly,  &  y^  Trade  of  his  Maj*'*^^  Subjects  not  be  exposed 
for  want  thereof. 

Dated  at  the  Admiralty  Office  this  2pt  day  of  June  1700. 
J  Bridgwater 
Haversham 
D  Mitchell 
Geo:  Churchill 
By  Comand  of  their  Lords'pp^ 
J  Burchell 

By  the  Comissioners  for  Executing  the  Office  of  Lord  High 
Admirall  of  England. 

Suffer  the  Ship  Providence  of  Virginia  whereof  James  Wood  is 
Master,  Burthen  about  One  Hundred  Tons,  mounted  with  Six 
Gvms  and  Navigated  with  Twelve  men.  Eight  his  Maj*'^^  Sub- 
jects English  built.  But  if  a  fforreign  built  Shipp  it  must  be  said 
ifoireign  built  made  free,  to  passe  with  her  Company,  Passen- 
gers, Goods  and  Merchandizes,  w'^'out  any  Lett,  hindrance. 
Seizure  or  molestation ;  the  s*^  Shipp  appearing  unto  us  by  good 
testimony  to  belong  to  the  Subjects  of  his  Maj''«,  and  to  no 
fforreigner 

Given  imder  our  hands  &  y^  Scale  of  our  Office  of  Admirall 
at  Whitehall  y''  Tenth  day  of  June  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  One 
thousand  Seven  hundred. 
To  all  persons  whom  these 
may  conceme. 

By  Comand  of  their  Lord'pps. 

James  Wood  of  Virginia  Marriner  and  Master  of  the  Ship 
called  the  Providence  of  Virginia  now  at  Anchor  there  maketh 
Oath  before  A.  B.  Govcmour  of  his  Maj''^^  Colony  of  Virginia 
That  the  said  Ship  called  the  Providence  of  Virginia  Burthen 


262  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

One  hundred  Tuns,  more  or  less,  mounted  with  Six  Guns,  and 
Navigated  with  Twelve  men,  whereof  Eight  are  his  Maj*'^' 
Subjects  &  four  Strangers,  is  bound  for  England  and  that  he  is 
appointed  the  Sole  Master  for  the  said  Voyage,  and  knows  no 
other  Master,  is  an  English  buUt  Ship  and  doth  belong  to  the 
Inhabitants  of  Londone  and  other  places  in  the  Dominions  of 
his  Majesty  of  Great  Britain.  And  further  saith,  That  the  said 
Ship  was  never  called  by  any  other  Name,  and  that  he  never 
had  a  former  Pass  for  her. 

Or  if  called  by  any  other  name  it  must  be  filled  up  thus — 
And  that  the  said  Ship  was  formerly  called  y^  Adventure,  and 
that  the  last  Pass  he  rec'd  for  her  is  returned  to  the  Govemour 
of  Virginia. 

Jurat.     That  the  Contents  abovesaid 
are  true  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge, 

Coramme 

Oath  of  a  Master  of  an  English-built  Ship 

James  Wood  of  Virginia  Mariner  and  Master  of  the  Ship 
called  the  Providence  of  Virginia  now  at  Anchor  there  maketh 
Oath  before  A.  B.  Govemour  of  his  Maj*'«^  Colony  of  Virginia 
That  the  said  Ship  called  y"*  Providence  of  Virginia,  Burthen 
about  One  hund^  Tons  more  or  less,  mounted  w*''  Six  Guns,  and 
Navigated  with  Twelve  men,  whereof  Eight  are  his  Maj*'*^  Sub- 
jects, and  ffour  Strangers,  bound  for  England,  and  whereof  he 
is  appointed  the  Sole  Master  for  the  s'l  Voyage,  and  knows  of 
no  other  Master,  is  a  fforreign  built  Ship — made  ffree,  and  doth 
wholly  belong  to  the  Inhabitants  of  London  and  other  places  in 
the  Dominions  of  his  Majesty  of  Great  Britain.  That  the  said 
Ship  was  never  called  by  any  other  name,  and  that  he  never  had 
a  former  passe  for  her. 

Or  if  called  by  any  other  name,  it  must  be  filled  up  thus. 

And  that  the  s^  Ship  was  formerly  called  y^  Adventure,  and 
that  y®  last  pass  he  rec'd  for  her  is  returned  to  the  Govemour 
of  Virginia. 

That  the  said  Ship  was  never  called  by  any  other  name,  and 
that  he  never  had  a  former  passe  for  her. 


COUNCIL   PAPERS.  263 

And  that  the  s*^  Ship  became  English  Propriety  as  by  Certifi- 
cate from  S""  John  Shaw,  Baron*'  Collector  of  the  Customes 
dated  the  25*^  June  1689  does  appeare. 

Jurat,   That  the  Certificate  of  the 
freed  ome  of  this  Shipp  produced 
and  the  Contents  af ores'*,  are  true 
to  the  best  of  his  knowledge 

Coram  me 

Oath  of  a  Master  for  a  ffree  Shipp, 

[There  follows,  in  Latin,  some  bond,  about  which,  in  English, 
is  the  following  condition.] 

The  Condicon  of  this  Obligation  is  such.  That  whereas  the 
above  bound  James  Wood  hath  rec'd  a  Pass  from  A.  B.  Gover- 
nour  of  his  Maj*'*"^  Colony  of  Virginia  for  the  good  Ship  called 
the  Providence  of  Virginia  and  whereof  he  the  s**  James  Wood  is 
Master,  bearing  date,  w*"*  these  p'sents,  Now  if  the  s**  James 
Wood  shall  deliver  or  cause  to  be  delivered  up  the  s**  Pass  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Admiralty,  or  to  the  Govemour  of  Virginia 
for  the  time  being  or  any  other  person  entrusted  w***  y*  delivery 
of  Passes,  in  any  of  his  Maj''^'  Plantations  or  elsewhere,  either 
at  the  Expiration  of  One  year  from  the  date  hereof,  or  upon  the 
Shipps',  retume,  &  being  unloaden  in  some  part  of  England, 
Wales,  or  Town  of  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  or  her  arrivall  or  being 
unloaden  in  any  of  his  Maj*'^-  Plantations,  unless  she  shall 
happen  to  be  taken  by  pirats,  or  be  Cast  away  &  Shipwrecked; 
Then  this  Obligation  to  be  void  &  of  more  effect,  or  else  it  shall 
remaine  in  full  force  8c  virtue. 
Sealed  &  delivered 
in  the  p''sence  of  [Blank] 

Bond  for  a  Ship  or  Vessell  entring  Outwards  in  y'  Plantations 
of  Africa  or  Europe. 

[Latin] 

The  Condicon  of  this  Obligacon  is  such.  That  whereas  the 
above  bound  James  Wood  hath  rcc'd  a  Pass  from  A.  B.  Govern' 


264  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

of  his  Maj*'*^  Colony  of  Virg'a  for  y®  good  Ship  called  the  Provi- 
dence of  Virginia  &  whereas  he  y®  s*^  James  Wood  is  Master  bear- 
ing date  w**"  these  p'"sents  Now  if  y^  s*^  James  Wood  shall  deliver 
or  cause  to  be  delivered  up  y*  s^  Pass  to  y''  Govemour  of  his 
Maj*'^"  Colony  of  Virg'a  for  y^  time  being  or  any  other  person 
entrusted  w*""  y^  deliv'y  of  Passes  in  any  of  his  Maj*'^'  Planta- 
tions, at  the  Expiration  of  One  year  from  y^  date  hereof,  imless 
the  Ship  shall  happen  to  be  taken  by  Pirats  or  be  Cast  away  & 
Shipwrecked :  Then  this  Obligation  to  be  void  and  of  none  Effect; 
or  else  it  shall  remain  in  full  force  &  virtue. 
Sealed  and  delivered 
in  the  p'sence  of  [Blank] 

Bond  for  a  Ship  or  Vessell  entring  outwards  in  the  Planta- 
tions Coastwise  or  for  any  other  of  his  Maj*'®'  Plantations. 
[Form  of  the  Registry  for  Passes  on  separate  sheet] 

An  ace*  of  the  Several!  Plantations  to  which  Passes  are  Sent. 
Jamaica  Virginia  New  Hamshire. 

Barbadoes  Maryland 

Leew*^  Islands  New  York 

Bermudas  Massachusetts  Bay 

Plantations  under  Proprietors  &  a  Charter  Govemmn*. 
Bahama  Islands  East  &  West  New  Jersey 

Carolina  Connecticut 

Pensilvania  Rhoad  Island 


Instructions  in  Regard  to  Trials. 

Whitehall  Aug*  the  P*  1700 
S^ 

Their  Excellencies  the  L***  Justices  having  by  Order  in  Coun- 
ciU  of  y^  IS*''  of  July  last,  required  us  to  signify  their  pleasure 
unto  the  respective  Govemours  of  his  Maj"^^  Plantations  in 
America,  as  well  such  as  are  granted  in  Propriety  as  such  as  are 
Governed  by  Comission  from  his  Maj*'^  relateing  to  the  method 
of  proceedings  in  the  severall  Courts  upon  Tryalls  of  all  sorts  of 
Causes  in  the  s^  Courts  in  those  parts  respectively,  wee  send 


COUNCIL  PAPERS  265 

you  here  inclosed  a  Copy  of  the  s*^  Order,  that  you  may  observe 
the  same  in  transmitting  to  us  the  ace*  thereby  required,  with 
relacon  to  his  Maj*'*'  Province  of  Virginia  as  soon  as  possible. 
So  we  bid  you  heartily  farewell. 

Yo'  very  Loving  Friends 
Ph:  Meadows  Ab^  Hill 

John  Pollexfen  Geo:  Stepney 

M  Prior. 
Coll.  Nicholson. 

At  the  Councill  Chamber  at  Whitehall  the  18»»>  day  of  July 
1700. 
s.  s.  Present 

Their  Excellencies  the  Lords  Justices  in  Councill. 

It  is  this  day  Ordered  by  their  Excellencys  the  Lords  Justices 
in  Councill  that  directions  be  sent  to  y®  respective  Govemours 
of  his  Maj  ''^*  plantations  in  America,  as  well  such  as  are  granted 
in  Propriety,  as  such  as  are  Governed  by  Comission  from  his 
Majesty,  to  transmitt  an  ace*  to  y*  Lords  Comissioners  for 
trade  &  plantations  in  the  most  perticular  manner,  of  y° 
method  of  proceedings  in  the  severall  Courts  upon  Tryalls  of 
all  Sorts  of  Causes  in  the  s^  Courts,  in  those  parts  respectively: 
and  that  the  same  be  comunicated  by  their  Lords'pps  to  this 
Board,  for  his  Maj*'^'  better  information  in  the  determining  of 
Appeales  from  y^  plantacons;  And  the  Lords  Com""*  for  Trade 
8c  plantations  are  to  signifie  their  Excellency's  pleasure  herein, 
to  the  s"^  respective  Govemours  accordingly. 
Signed. 

John  Povey 
A  true  Copy 

Wm.  Popple, 
ffor  his  Maj''"'  especiall  Service. 

For  the  hon'ble  Francis  Nicholson  Esq""  his  Maj*'*"  L*  & 
Govern "■  Genrall  of  his  Maj*'*"*  Colony  of  Virginia  in  America, 
Or  for  y"  Comander  in  Chief e  of  that  Colony  for  the  time 
being. 

Virginia 


266  virginia  historical  magazine. 

Board  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Governor  of 
Virginia 

Whitehal.  Aug*  the  2P*  1700 
Sir 

We  have  rec'd  yo'  Letter  of  the  10""  of  June  last,  with  many 
Papers  therein  mentioned  and  referred  to. 

We  congratulate  the  Success  you  have  had  in  yo''  late  Enter- 
prize  against  the  Pirats ;  And  take  this  occasion  to  tell  you  that 
wee  hope  that  all  difficulties  that  might  arise  about  the  Conduct 
of  the  Governors  of  any  of  his  Majesties  Plantations  towards 
Piratts  will  hereafter  be  in  great  measure  removed,  by  an  Act 
past  here  the  Last  Session  of  Parliam'  for  the  more  Effectuall 
Suppression  of  Pyracy,  And  the  Comissions  w*^"^  are  now  pre- 
paring to  be  sent  thither  in  pursuance  of  y^  s'^  Act,  not  doubting 
but  the  same  will  also  be  very  Effectuall  towards  the  Suppres- 
sion of  Pyracy  as  intended. 

What  you  write  concerning  Navigation  Bonds  (w'=^  we  take 
to  be  much  what  y^  same  Case  in  Virginia  as  in  Maryland)  is 
proper  for  y^  consideracon  of  the  Com"  of  the  Customs,  &  by 
them  to  be  laid  before  y^  L"*^  Comission"  of  y'^  Treasury  from 
whom  all  Directions  in  matters  relateing  to  his  Maj"^«  Revenue 
must  come;  and  there  are  many  other  things  in  yo""  s*^  Letter 
w"^  belong  to  y^  Care  of  y^  Lords  Com"  of  y^  Admiralty,  & 
others  to  other  Offices  concerning  w'''^  you  have  not  observed 
y"  advice  and  the  reason  of  our  so  advising  w"^  we  gave  you  in 
Ours  of  y^  4*''  of  January  last,  and  have  thereby  left  us  doubtful 
whether  it  were  necessary  for  us  to  Comunicate  y^  Copies  of 
what  we  receive  from  you  unto  them,  or  what  else  might  be 
fit  for  us  to  do  therein,  w'^''  inconvenience  we  therefore  againe 
intreat  you  for  y®  future  to  prevent. 

The  Care  you  promise  in  advancing  his  majesties  Revenue,  & 
y**  hopes  you  express  of  being  able  in  a  year  or  two  to  Build  a 
house  for  his  Maj*'^^  Governor  are  very  acceptable  things,  and 
as  we  doubt  not  of  yo""  endeavours  therein  we  hope  they  will 
accordingly  prove  Successfull. 

We  are  glad  also  to  Observe  that  you  were  taking  care  about 
the  Revisal  of  the  Lawes  of  Virg'a  according  to  what  we  Ex- 
plained to  you  of  the  Sence  of  his  Maj*''^'  Instruccon  ab*  that 


COUNCIL  PAPERS.  267 

matter,  in  our  aforesaid  Letter  of  y'  4*^  of  January;  And  hope 
we  shall  accordingly  e're  long  receive  them  so  Revised,  that  we 
thereby  may  be  enabled  to  consider  them  in  Order,  &  offer  our 
opinion  thereupon  to  his  Maj*'®,  w'^''  we  cannot  now.  do  upon 
these  last  rec'd,  for  want  of  a  perfect  &  Authentick  Collection  of 
the  whole,  And  we  desire  you  therefore  to  make  what  dispatch 
you  can  therein. 

We  have  found  an  inconvenience  from  some  of  his  Maj*'*'^ 
Plantations,  in  having  private  Acts  fastened  together  under  the 
same  Seal  with  those  y*  are  of  a  public  nature,  the  one  proving 
sometimes  an  obstruccon  to  y^  dispatch  of  y^  other;  And  we 
therefore  desire  you  (as  we  have  done  other  Governors)  when- 
soever any  such  private  Acts  come  to  be  past  in  Virginia  to  take 
care  y*  they  be  sent  each  of  y'm  under  a  Separate  Seal,  and  that 
the  persons  concerned  therein  be  advised  to  direct  some  of  their 
friends  here  to  Sollicit  their  Dispatch  with  the  Attorney  or  Solli- 
citor  Generall  and  to  furnish  those  friends  with  all  memorials 
necessary  to  enable  y'm  to  give  information  in  any  Doubts  or 
Enquiries  that  may  be  made  thereupon. 

Tho'  M""  Penn  have  given  us  a  particular  account  of  his  hav- 
ing applied  himself  (since  his  arrival  in  Pensilvania)  to  y^  refor 
mation  of  the  irregularities  w"''  have  been  in  y*  Province,  it  is 
very  acceptable  to  us  to  receive  the  confirmation  thereof  from 
You,  and  to  understand  yo""  readiness  to  Correspond  w*''  him 
as  w*'*  the  Earle  of  Bellemont  &  Colonel  Blakiston,  in  anything 
for  his  Maj*''=*  Service;  And  whensoever  it  shall  happen  that  you 
can  all  of  you  meet  together  to  consult  of  y^  mutual  Welfare  of 
your  respective  Govemm*^,  we  cannot  but  hope  some  good 
effect  from  it. 

Having  lately  rec'd  a  L'"  from  M""  John  Moore,  desiring  y* 
some  Salary  may  be  appointed  for  his  Service  as  Advocate  in 
the  Admiralty  Court  of  Pensilvania,  in  which  place  he  says  you 
had  put  him,  we  desire  you  to  let  him  know  y'  we  writ  you  the 
4^''  January  last  upon  the  like  occasion,  (viz')  That  when  any 
Salaries  are  Settled  upon  the  like  Officers  in  other  places,  we 
shal  be  ready  to  propose  that  y°  same  be  done  for  him;  But 
that  the  Consideracon  of  y'  matter  belonging  more  properly  to 


268  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

the  Lords  of  the  Treasury,  or  Lords  of  the  Admiralty,  we  do  not 
at  present  think  it  fit  for  us  to  move  anything  in  it. 

Upon  what  you  write  of  the  difficulty  to  get  a  Quorum  of 
Councellors  to  meet  together  and  about  Colonel  Lee's  desiring 
to  be  discharged  from  attending  upon  that  Service,  we  have 
offered  to  their  Excellencies  the  Lords  Justices  out  Opinion  that 
he  may  be  discharged  accordingly,  and  that  M'  Lewis  Burwell 
may  be  constituted  a  Member  of  his  Majesties  Coimcil  in  Vir- 
ginia in  his  stead. 

We  have  ordered  oiu*  Secretary  to  write  to  you  upon  some 
other  heads  of  less  moment;  And  so  referring  you  for  those  mat 
ters  to  his  Letter;  We  bid  you  heartily  farewell 

Your  very  Loving  Friends 
Ph:  Meadows 
John  Pollexfen 
Abr.  Hill 

(To  be  Continued) 


SUSSEX  COUNTY  WILLS 


SUSSEX  COUNTY  WILLS,  (VA.) 

From  organization  in  1754  to  1804  (Some  later). 
Compiled  by  W.  B.  Cridlin. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XIX,  Page  57.) 


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451 

Mason,  John 

1755 

A 

40 

Moss,  John 

1761 

A 

198 

May,  Joseph 

1763 

A 

300  (Acct) 

Maclemore,  John 

1767 

B 

108 

Munds,  John 

1768 

B 

162  (Acct) 

Mitchel,  John 

1770 

B 

277 

Moss,  James 

1772 

C 

29  (Inv  &  Apt) 

270  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Meacham,  Joshua  1775  C  159 

Moss,  John  1776  C  209 

Morgan,  John  1781  C  420 

Mitchel,  John  1782  D       89 

Mangum,  James  1784  D  237 

Moss,  Joanna  1784  D  273 

Mason,  John  1787  D  348 

Mason,  John  (Codicil)  1785  D  343 

Montgomery,  John  1790  E        54  (Inv  &  Apt) 

Mason,  Joseph  1792  E  103 

Malone,  John  1794  E  248 

Mitchel,  John  1795  E  337 

Mason,  John  1796  E  434 

Mitchell.  Jacob  1797  F        48 

Mason,  John  Sen'.  1802  F  295 

Mason,  Jane  (Wid.  of  J.)  1802  F  395 

Moore,  James  1804  F  450 

Malone,  John  1812  G  391 

Moss,  John  1812  G  391 

May,  James  1818  H  537 

Munds,John  1821  I  169 

M\irphy,  John  1821  I  180  (Inv  &  Apt) 

Massenburg,  John  1823  I  347 

Moss,  Mary  1775  C  192 

Moore,  Martha  1776  C  202 

Mitchel,  Milly  1788  D  499 

Malone,  Michael  1798  F        91 

Murrell,  Mary  1813  H       25  (Inv  &  Apt) 

Martin,  Elizabeth  1756  A       60 

Moore,  EHzabeth  1761  A  227 

Moss,  EHzabeth  1782  D       40 

Moss,  Ephriam  1792  E       98 

Magee,  Gillam  1811  G  353 

Mason,  Isaac  1758  A        84 

Mason,  Littleberry  1807  G       87 

Moss,  William  1758  A       87  (Inv  &  Apt) 

Metcalf,  Warner  1760  A  170  (Inv  &  Apt) 

McMichael,  William  1765  B        46  (Inv  &  Apt) 


SUSSEX  COUNTY  WILLS  271 

Moore,  William  1768  B  146  (Inv  &  Apt) 

Maloone,  William  1774  C  135 

Mitchell,  William  1778  C  312 

Mason,  William  1781  C  409 

Moore,  William  1781  C  410 

Moss,  William  1786  D  388 

Mason,  WHliam  1793  E  218 

Magee,  Willey  1809  G  202 

Massenberg,  William  1816  H  280 

Murphy,  Warren  1816  H  305  (Inv) 

Morgan,  Priscella  1758  A  105  (Acct) 

Magee,  Priscella  1810  G  243  (Inv) 

Mason,  Seth  1759  A  129  (Inv) 

Moore,  Sarah  1771  B  327 

Moss,  Seth  1777  C  263 

Moss,  Sampson  1782  D  75  (Inv) 

Maggot,  Samuel  1787  D  469 

Moss,  Benjamin  1761  A  209  (Inv) 

Meacham,  Banks  1798  F  108 

Maclemore,  Burrell  1798  F  123 

Millar,  Benjamin  1809  G  169 

Meacham,  Banks  1809  G  354 

Malone,  Nathaniel  1761  A  211 

Mitchell,  Nathaniel  1771  B  304 

Massenburg,  Nicholas  1772  B  344 

Mitchell,  Thomas  1762  A  232 

Mimiford,  Thomas  1763  A  262 

Moore,  Thomas,  Senr.  1765  B  56 

Masingale,  Thomas  1794  E  279 

Mabry,  Charles  1769  B  209  (Inv) 

Murfee,  Charles  1805  F  512 

Mangum,  Caty  1817  H  338 

Moore,  Charles  1818  H  453 

Maclemore,  Charles  1818  H  527 

Megee,  Ralph  1770  B  273 

Megee,  Robert  1786  D  415 

Moore,  Robert  1802  F  298 

Mitchell,  Reaps  1803  F  340 


272  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Moore,  Robert  (a  citizen  of 

N.  C.)  1808  G  123  (Died  "Trav- 
eling in  Va.") 

Murrul,  Robert  1808  G  127  (Acct) 

Moore,  Robert  1823  I  431 

Massenberg,  Rebecca  1824  K  116 

N 

Nicolson,  John  1754  A  2 

Nicolson,  John  1777  C  264 

Newsom,  Jacob  1794  E  251  (Inv) 

Northcross,  James  1802  F  308 

Northcross,  Jane  1808  G  167 

Niblett,  Benjamin  1828  L  5  (Inv) 

Nicholson,  Robert  1762  A  250 

Northcross,  Richard  1802  F  280  &  288 

Neaves,  Daniel  1816  H  270  (Inv) 

Noevell,  William  1764  B  14  (Inv) 

Nicholson,  William  1797  F  5 

Niblett,  William  1808  G  150 

Niblett,  Palatiah  1816  H  304 

Northington,  Starling  1773  C  35  (Inv) 

Neves,  Susanna  1799  F  162 

Newsom,  Sally  1815  H  157 

Nicholson,  Lydda  1814  H  114 

Nicholson,  Mary  1776  C  227 

Nicholson,  Michael  1786  D  403  (Inv) 

Nicholson,  Etheldred  1806  F  533  &  557 

Northington,  Nathan  1777  C  278 

Nives,  EHzabeth  1829  I  138 

Nicholson,  Harris  1805  F  464 

Nicholson,  Howell  1827  L  17 

Nicholson,  Capt.  Flood  1781  C  418 

Nicholson,  Robert  F.  1810  G  295  (Inv) 

Northcross,  Frederick  1816  H  235 

Newsom,  Charlotte  1789  D  561 

Newsome,  Chas.  S.  1819  I  59  (Inv) 

Newsom,  Thomas  1785  D  289 

Newsom,  Temperance  1831  L  373 


SUSSEX  COUNTY  WILLS.  273 

O 

Owen,  John  1783  D  131  (Inv) 

Ogbum,  John  1790  E  0 

Owen,  John  1808  G  121 

Owen,  Samuel  1820  I  105 

Ogbum,  Edmund  1782  D  12 

Owen,  Elizabeth  1821  I  159  (Inv) 

Owen,  David  1790  E  35 

Owen,  Bolaam  1822  I  269  (Inv) 

Owen,  Robert  1772  B  350 

Owen,  Hannah  1796  E  432 

Oliver,  Thomas  1760  A  162 

Ogbume,  Augustine  1807  G  71 

Oliver,  Asa  1819  I  79  (Inv) 

Owen,  William  1763  A  265 

Oliver,  William  1795  E  365  (Inv) 


Partridge,  Nicolas  1756  A  46 

Parham,  Nachaniel  1795  E  356 

Partridge,  Nicholas  1798  F  96  (Inv) 

Pennington,  Nancy  1812  G  433 

Peebles,  Nathaniel  1816  H  279 

Presson,  Nicholas  1828  L  61 

Pettway,  Robert  1757  A  65 

Parsons,  Robert  1777  C  265 

Pepper,  Richard  1759  A  121 

Parham,  Robert  1767  B  145 

Pettway,  Robert  1772  C  14 

Pettway,  Robert  1784  D  213 

Parham,  Rebecca  1790  E  18 

Parham,  Rebecca  1798  F  103 

Parker,  Richard  1810  G  248 

Parsons,  Robert  1813  H  1 

Pond,  Richard  1838  M  331  (Inv) 

Pair.  WilHam  1757  A  67 


274  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

Parham,  William  1758  A  108 

Partridge,  Wells  1765  B  29 

Parker,  William  1768  B  159 

Pettway,  William  1774  C  146 

Parham,  William  1775  C  173 

Parker,  William  1779  C  329 

Partin,  William  1787  D  440 

Prince,  William  1801  F  237 

Pettway,  William  1804  F  442 

Pleasants,  William  1809  G  176 

Porch,  William  1812  G  215  (Inv) 

Parham,  William  1818  H  467 

Pennington,  Winiield  1823  I  432 

Parker,  Sarah  1760  A  162 

Pettway,  Sterling  1792  E  108 

Parham,  Stith  (of  S.  C.)  1793  E  222 

Powell  Se>'mour  1794  E  300  (A  letter  con- 
strued as  will) 

Parham,  Sarah  1805  F  470  (Inv) 

Peebles,  Susanna  G.  1817  H  380 

Parham,  Stith  1806  F  529 

Plunket,  Samuel  1824  K  107  (Inv) 

Peters,  Thomas  1760  A  171  (Inv) 

Pennington,  Thomas  1772  B  342 

Parham,  Capt.  Thomas  1773  C  109 

Pate,  Thomas  1774  C  110 

Peters,  Thomas  1777  C  241 

Parham,  Thomas  1781  C  395 

Peebles,  William  1782  C  434 

Presson,  Thomas  1785  D  369 

Pate,  Thomas  1822  I  285  (Inv) 

Pretlow,  Joshua  1762  A  241  (Inv) 

Parham,  John  1764  A  313 

Pennington,  John,  Sr.  1766  B        77 

Pennington,  John,  Jr.  1766  B        78 

Pennington,  Joshua  1768  B  159 

Pennington,  Joseph  1768  B  175 

Paynter,  John  1772  B  339  (Inv) 


SUSSEX  COUNTY  WILLS. 


275 


Pennington,  John 

1773 

C 

89 

Poarch,  James 

1776 

C 

217 

Pettway,  John 

1781 

C 

416 

Peoples,  Jesse 

1782 

D 

13 

Phillips,  James 

1782 

D 

17 

Parham,  John 

1791 

E 

94 

Parham,  James 

1793 

E 

228 

Powell,  John 

1798 

F 

94  (of  Oglethorpe 
Co.,  Ga.) 

Porch,  James 

1801 

F 

238 

Parham,  John 

1811 

G 

372 

Potts,  John 

1814 

H 

91 

Pate,  John 

1814 

H 

116 

Pennington,  John 

1823 

I 

338 

Parham,  James  L. 

1824 

K 

84 

Parr,  John 

1836 

M 

347 

Parham,  Ephriam 

1763 

A 

296 

Pettway,  Edward 

1773 

C 

32 

Pettway,  Edward 

1779 

C 

339 

Pate,  Edward 

1805 

F 

465 

Pennington,  Edward 

1805 

F 

467 

Prince,  Elizabeth 

1811 

G 

370 

Pegram,  Edwin 

1828 

L 

106 

Price,  Ann 

1765 

B 

49  (Inv) 

Parham,  Anderson 

1797 

F 

34 

Porch,  Ann 

1810 

G 

265 

Parham,  Ann 

1812 

G 

432 

Parham,  Abraham 

1816 

H 

227 

Parker,  Archibald 

1818 

H 

478  (Inv) 

Parham,  Ann  Eliza 

1822 

I 

317  (Inv) 

(Orphan    o    f 
Lewis 
Parham) 

Porch,  Henry 

1765 

B 

63 

Pride,  Halcott 

1774 

C 

138 

Pride,  Halcott 

1775 

C 

150  (Inv) 

(In  N.  C.  pro- 
vince.) 

276 


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Porch,  Henry- 

1775 

C 

169 

Pride,  Halcott 

1775 

C 

180  (Inv) 

(Est.  in  Din- 
widdie  Co.) 

Prince,  Hannah 

1783 

D 

184 

Pettway,  Hinchy 

1791 

E 

68 

Porch,  Henry 

1794 

E 

263 

Pate,  Hardy 

1807 

G 

68 

Pennington,  Moses 

1766 

B 

104  (Inv) 

Parham,  Mathew 

1772 

B 

347 

Parham,  Mary 

1788 

D 

475 

Parham,  Mathew 

1795 

E 

380 

Pilkington,  Mary 

1801 

F 

231 

Peters,  Mathew 

1810 

G 

242 

Pennington,  Marcus 

1810 

G 

258 

Porch,  Peter 

1779 

C 

322 

Porch,  Peterson 

1813 

F 

345  (Inv) 

Prince,  Patsy,  Martha 

1809 

G 

211  (Mother  of 
J  o  h  n  R. 
Prince.) 

Pennington,  David 

1781 

C 

390 

Pennington,  David 

1783 

D 

210 

Pleasants,  Geo. 

1783 

D 

115 

Parham,  George 

1808 

D 

148 

Portlock,  Charles 

1797 

F 

79 

Pate,  Cordy 

1807 

G 

65  (Inv) 

Potts,  Charles 

1824 

K 

136  (Inv) 

Parham,  Caesar 

1828 

L 

35 

Poarch,  Israel 

1783 

D 

168  (Will  c   o   n- 
tested,    being 
only  a  letter. 

Pettway,  Lucy 

1800 

F 

211 

Parham,  Lewis 

1805 

F 

459 

Phipps,  Benjamin 

1801 

F 

219 

Pretlow,  Benjamin 

1824 

K 

78  (Inv) 

Parham,  Booth 

1825 

K 

280 

Pennington,  Frederick 

1809 

G 

206 

Parham,  Frances 

1817 

H 

389 

(To  be  Continued) 


HENRY  COUNTY  MARRIAGES.  277 


HENRY  COUNTY. 


From  its  Formation  in  1776  to  the  end  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century,  et  seg: 


Marriage  License  Bonds. 


From  the  files  of  the  Clerk's  office,  by  C.  B.  Bryant, 
Martinsville,  Va. 


Alexander,  WilUam — Jean  Ferguson 21  Feby.,  1778 

Anderson,  Robert — Elizabeth  Graves 4  Sept.,  1794 

Bassett,  Burwell— Polly  Hunter...__ 25  Jany.,  1794 

Blakey,  Churchill— Agnes  Anthony 2  Aug.,  1780 

Brown,  Isham— Mary  Dilloner _ 19  July,  1793 

Bernard,  Walter— Ruth  Hill 6  April,  1782 

Briscoe,  Truman— Catherine  Dunn._ 22  Dec.,  1782 

Bledsoe,  Peachy— Peggy  George 12  July,  1780 

Bayles,  William— Tabitha  Minnes.__ 12  April,  1793 

Billeman,  Wm— Nilly  Molen._ _ 25  Dec,  1794 

Burgess,  Davis — Lucy  Pace 26  Jany.,  1794 

Burress,  Jacob — Susannah  Martin 13  Mar.,  1781 

Bailey,  John— Lydia  Wilson 18  March,  1793 

Cannon,  James— Patsy  Wilson 18  Dec,  1793 

Crouch,  Joseph— Peggy  Sanford. 20  Feb.,  1778 

Cason,  Edward— Lucy  Edwards.^.. 27  April,  1793 

CoUey,  John— Sarah  France 17  Oct.,  1789 

Cox,  John— Leaner  Boiling 6  Sept.,  1791 

Clark,  John— Sally  Standefor..._ 4  Nov.,  1779 

Cunningham,  Jos. — Nancy  Davis 16  July,  1793 

Cockram,  Wm.— Sally  Edmondson. 5  Aug.,  1780 

Compton,  Ebenezer — Ailcey  Hopper 6  May,  1794 

Conway,  John— Elizabeth  Williams.- 5  Nov.,  1782 


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Carter,  Jos. — Nanny  Manifee..- 24  June,  1778 

Chewning,  John — Lettie  Payne...- 26  April,  1778 

Cayton,  Wm.— Rachel  Oakes 4  Jany.,  1793 

Carter,  Jos. — Mary  Billion 16  Jany.,  1794 

Cunningham,  Wm.— Mary  Pyrtle .27  Nov.,  1793 

Dillener,  Henry — Lucy  Murphy 19  July,  1793 

Dooly,  Thomas— Lucy  Webb ..13  April,  1779 

Dillon,  Wm.— Tabitha  Witt... .....19  Dec,  1792 

Dent,  Shadrick— Mary  Murphy 16  Nov.,  1783 

Dillon,  Benjn,  Jr.— Elizabeth  Witty. .21  Mar.,  1792 

Dillingham,  Lott— Ann  Dillingham 2  Mar.,  1792 

Dickinson,  John — Isbell  Woods 2  June,  1781 

Edmundson,  Humphry — Francis  Swanson  ...22  Nov.,  1779 

Elkins,  David— Mary  Pedigo 6  April,  1793 

Edwards,  Wm.— Elizabeth  Britain... 2  Aug.,  1791 

Edwards,  Owen— Judith  Morton... 29  Oct.,  1794 

Earles,  Joshua — Elizabeth  Lucas. ...18  June,  1792 

Farris,  Thomas— Judith  Quarles 7  Jany.,  1792 

Fuller,  Britain— Nancy  Jackson... 29  Feby.,  1780 

Griffith,  Wm.— Susannah  Jones 25  July,  1782 

Griggs,  John— Pheby  Ackolas 30  July,  1792 

Goven,  Wm.— Sarah  Griggs ...27  Oct.,  1794 

Hailey,  John— Lucy  Ryan 28  July,  1794 

Hunt,  James— Sarah  Terry 25  May,  1780 

Hampton,  Laban — Leany  Stephens... 6  Jany.,  1794 

Hamilton,  George — Agnes  Cooper 18  April,  1783 

Hogans,  Wm. — Nancy  Dillard ...19  Jany.,  1780 

Hawkins,  Benj— Molly  Taylor...... 1  Oct.,  1778 

Hopper,  Wm.— Hecter  Stephens 18  May,  1793 

Hardy,  Charles— Rachel  Parsley 5  Feb.,  1793 

Haley,  Wm.— Nancy  Jackson 20  Dec,  1792 

Hannah,  Alex.— Sarah  Pelptory 16  Oct.,  1793 

Jones,  Robert — Sina  Richards 20  June,  1785 

Joyce,  Andrew— Betsy  King 25  June,  1792 

Jamerson,  Thomas — Hesey  Huston 2  Dec,  1794 

KeUey,  John— Betty  Bybee 10  Feb.,  1781 

Knox,  Benj. — Jemima  Gardner 12  Jany.,  1780 

King,  Wm.— Nancy  Mitchell 19  July,  1794 


HENRY   COUNTY    MARRIAGES.  279 

Kirkham,  Wm.— Elizabeth  Blize 15  Dec,  1792 

Lindsey,  Henry— Elizabeth  Smith 26  Nov.,  1791 

Letchworth,  Benj.— Eleanor  Adams .24  Oct.,  1792 

Lyon,  Stephen— Elley  Perkins 11  Dec.,  1782 

Lanier,  Washington — Elizabeth  Hicks 15  Nov.,  1784 

Mitchell,  Wm.— Martha  Stoker 30  May,  1778 

Moore,  Shater— Ann  Hooker ..13  May,  1778 

McGuire,  AUegania— Sarah  Holliday 27  June,  1782 

Martin,  Joseph — Susannah  Graves 24  Feb.,  1784 

Martin,  Joseph— Ruth  Dillard. 30  Aug.,  1793 

Melvin,  Levi — Elizabeth  Gooch ...18  June,  1793 

Medley,  John— Ann  Carter....... ...30  Oct.,  1797 

Melvin,  Jamer — Katy  Kannon 24  June,  1795 

Murphy,  Gabriel — Ruth  Peregoy 7  Nov.,  1794 

Matthews,  Wm.— EHzabeth  Hunter 30  June,  1794 

Mastin,  Jacob— Elizabeth  Melvin..... 12  Jiily,  1792 

Mays,  Liggen — Easter  Daniel..... 2  July,  1792 

Nunn,  Thomas — Jean  Pace 14  Jany.,  1794 

Norris,  Zebulon — Elizabeth  Dillingham 14  Dec,  1793 

Northcutt,  Frances— Lucy  Haley...... ...26  May,  1794 

Norton,  John— Sarah  Penn ...26  July,  1784 

Nichols,  David — Clarey  Rowland... 4  Dec,  1793 

O'neal,  BasH- Milly  Briscoe 17  Jany.,  1789 

Pedigo,  Robert,  Jr— Parsley 3  Jany,  1792 

Pool,  George— Cloah  Payne 25  Dec,  1778 

Penn,  George — Patty  Farriss 6  Dec,  1784 

Patrick,  James— Sarah  Dunlop 13  Oct.,  1791 

Pearson,  Meredith — Rhoda  Delozier 10  May,  1794 

Philport,  Saml.— Mary  Hannah 12  Jany.,  1785 

Pyrtlc,  John— Polly  Maupin 5  Feby.,  1793 

Parberry;  James — Ann  Graves 10  May,  1784 

Peck,  David— Jean  Martin 26  Aug.,  1779 

Philpott,  Charles— EHzabeth  Hubbard 24  Nov.,  1794 

Pitman,  James — Martha  Taylor 2  July,  1781 

Quarles,  James — Elizabeth  Pelphry 22  Nov.,  1791 

Reynolds,  George — Susannah  Lansford 12  June,  1779 

Rowland,  Michael— Elizabeth  Hairston 20  June,  1778 

Rowland,  Baldwin— Sarah  Hairston 8  May,  1782 


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Rowland,  John,  Jr.— Enis  Sturgeon __ 23  July,  1780 

Richards,  Shadrick — Susannah  Hamilton. 28  Oct.,  1779 

Rea,  David— Frances  East 22  July,  1794 

Richardson,  John — Mary  Ryan. 16  Jany.,  1779 

Rentfro,  Mark— Naomi  Standifer. ..22  Apl.,  1779 

Ray,  Joseph — Mary  Ann  Hayse 30  Nov.,  1793 

Standifer,  Wm. — Jemima  Jones 24  June,  1779 

Sandford,  John— Judith  Gamer 20  Feby.,  1778 

Smith,  Gideon — Mary  Hirston.„ __... 27  April,  1784 

Snidow,  Phillip— Barbara  Prilliman 14  Feby.,  1782 

Sahnon,  Thaddeus— Elizabeth  Hoknes 26  Mar.,  1794 

Shelton,  Nathl.— Mary  Shelton 16  Sept.,  1794 

Steward,  Wm.— Milly  Eastes ...17  June,  1792 

Stone,  John— Mary  Philpott..._ 10  July,  1792 

Stanley,  Joseph — Sarah  Kitchen 15  June,  1785 

Stone,  William— Elizabeth  Nunn.... 14  Sept.,  1793 

Sumpter,  Wm.— Margarett  Pyrtle... 17  May,  1792 

Tankersley,  George — Elizabeth  Garrison ...29  Sept.,  1779 

Taylor,  James— Elizabeth  Williams ...29  Dec,  1794 

Threlkeld,  Elijah— Elizabeth  Cook 14  Nov.,  1781 

Thompson,  Wm.— Dolthien  Stockton. 12  Mar.,  1794 

Thomas,  Augustine — Deborah  Fulkerson 1  Dec,  1778 

Wash,  John — Nancy  Frazier  Gatewood  2  Aug.,  1779 

Wade,  Moses — Fanny  Furguson 29  Sept., 

Woods,  John— Lucy  Hawkins..._ 10  April,  1782 

Williamson,  Robert— Nancy  Cox. 18  Sept.,  1793 

Woods,  George — Fanny  Mason 17  Feby.,  1778 

Wilson,  Nath'l.— Susannah  Stephens 19  May,  1793 

Ware,  John— Margarett  Lady._ 6  Sept.,  1780 

Woods,  Hugh — Sarah  Ann  George .  5  Aug.,  1779 

Note. — It  is  believed  that  this  list  does  not  by  any  means 
include  all  the  marriages  in  this  county  during  the  above  period, 
but  thus  far  no  other  bonds  have  been  found. 
Jany  13,  1904.  C.   B.   B. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  281 


MINUTES  OF  THE  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT 
1624,  &c.* 


From  the  Originals  in  the  Library  of  Congress 


^AU  erasures  in  the  original  are  here  printed  in  italics. 


(Continued) 


[Beginning  of  Second  Book  of  the  Original  Record] 


A  Courte  Booke  begun  the  xv*** 
of  Januarye  1624 

[Rest  of  page  blank] 


[Ink  folio  72] 

A  Courte  held  the  l?**^  of  January  1624 
present  S""  Franncis  Wyatt  knight, 
Sr  George  Yardley,  Knight,  m'  Threasiirer 
Doctor  Pott  and  Capt  Smithe 

Y*  is  ordered  y*  W'm  Binck  (1)  shall  enioye  the  howse  &  grounde 
left  vnto  him  by  John  Lightfoote  for  an  Dureing  the  tearme 
for  *  *  *  'rs  granted  to  him  by  the  said  John  Lightfoote  ac- 
cordinge  to  ^the  Bargane  made  between  them  before  John 
Southeme  w"^  vppon  oath  y^  said  John  Southeme  hath  wit- 
nessed 

(l)-William  Bink,  and  his  wife  Anne,  both  of  whom  came  in  the  George, 
were  living  at  the  Main,  James  City,  at  the  census  of  1624-5. 


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Y*  is  ordered  y'  Nathaniell  Cawsey  (2)  shall  take  into  his  hands 

and 
save  Custodie  all  such  goods  as  belonge  to  the  Company  and 
Societie  of  Trweloues  Plantatione  Accordinge  as  m"" 
White  overseer  for  that  Company  Desired,  And  that  he 
take  a  trwe  Inventory  thereof  before  Sufficyent  men 
and  to  be  Accomptable  for  the  same  and  to  present  y"  said 
Inventorie  to  y^  Gou'nor  and  Counsell  w^'^in  one  moneth 
next  after  the  date  hereof 

Y*  is  furthered  ordered  y*  m''  Cawssey  shall  receave  into  his 
service  those  three  men  apoynted  him  by  m'  Whites  will 
Provided  that  the  strengthen  the  Plantation  w**^  three  other 
men,  And  yf  Ensigne  Chaplen  will  affourde  grounde  and 
howse  roome  to  Henry  Turner,  waiter  Price  and  theire 
servante,  y*  then  m""  Cawssey  provide  other  three  in  the 
Roome  of  them  to  strengthen  the  Trweloues  Plantation 

Y*  is  ordered  y*  Richarde  miltone  (3)  shall  live  at  shirley  hun- 
dred 
and  looke  vnto  the  Cattle  of  Barkley  hundred  for  which 
he  shalbee  allowed  Fif  tie  pound  waight  of  Tobacco  and 
the  milke  of  the  said  Kyne,  Provided  that  he  Carefully 
looke  vnto  them 

(2)-Nathaniel  Causey,  lived  at  "Causeys  Cave"  or  "Care,"  in  the  pres- 
ent Prince  George  County,  probably  the  later  "Cawsons,"  which  was 
the  birthplace  of  Jolm  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  and  long  a  seat  of  the 
Bland  family;  at  the  census  of  1624-5  he  lived  at  Jordan's  Journey,  and 
his  "Muster"  comprised  himself,  who  came  in  the  Phoenix  in  1607,  his 
wife  Thomasine  who  came  in  the  Lyon  in  1609,  and  five  servants.  Na- 
thaniel Causey  was  one  of  John  Smith's  soldiers  was  badly  wounded 
during  the  Indian  Massacre  of  1622,  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses in  1623,  and  when  he  returned  to  England  in  1627  (whether  as  a 
visitor  or  to  stay  is  not  known)  was  one  of  those  who  contributed  in- 
formation to  Smith's  General  History. 

Between  May,  1621  and  June,  1622  among  the  large  grants  of  land  made 
by  the  Virginia  Company  was  one  to  Rowland  Truelove,  and  several 
associates,  who  organized  themselves  into  a  private  Society  called  the 
Truelove  Society  Plantation.  But  little  is  known  of  this  plantation. 
Brown,  First  Republic,  (499,568)  mentions  two  voyages  in  1622  and  1623 
from  England  of  the  bark  Truelove  belonging  to  the  Society,  carrying 
supplies  and  emigrants. 

(3)-Richard  Milton,  who  came  in  the  Suply  in  1620,  lived  at  Jordon's 
Journey,  1624-5. 


MINUTES  OF  COUNCIL  AND  GENERAL  COURT.  283 

Peeter  Cecill  swome  &  Examined  sayeth  that  John 

Downman  (4)  vsed  those  oprobious  speeches  w*^**  are  mentioned 

in  Cap.  nicholes  marten  his  Declaratione 

Thomas  Rastell  swome  and  Examined  sayeth  and  affirmeth 
vpon  his  oath  that  he  hath  paide  all  the  Debte  char- 
ged vppon  his  Accompt 


[Ink  folio  73] 
Y*  is  ordered  y*^  John  Downeman  for  his  oprobius 
speeches  vsed  to  Cap  nicholes  Martine  shall  paye 
tenn  pound  ster'  for  a  fyne  and  Acknowledg  his  faulte 
in  the  Publique  Congregation  at  Kickotan  and  then  to 
aske  Cap'  Martine  forgivenes 

It  is  ordered  y^  whereas  there  remayneth  over  and  aboue 
those  Disbursements  Disbursed  by  m''  Rastell  one  hundred 
and  forty  pownd  ster'  at  three  shillings  p  pownd  in  the 
handes  of  m'  Rastell,  That  m''  Rastell  shall  leave 
those  Dept  that  are  Dew  to  him  here  in  Virginia 
Amountinge  to  two  thowsand  two  hundred  pownd 
waight  of  Tobacco,  to  this  Courte  as  securitie 
Provided  that  m'  Rastell  at  or  before  the  first 


(4)- John  Dowman  age  33,  who  had  come  on  the  John  and  Francis  in  1611, 
lived  at  Elizabeth  City  in  1624-5,  with  his  wife  Elizabeth,  age  22,  who 
came  in  the  Warwick  in  1621.  He  was  a  Burgess  for  Elizabeth  City  in 
1623. 

Captain  Nicholas  Marten  or  Martian  was  a  Protestant  Walloon  who  was 
denizized  in  England  and  came  to  Virginia.  He  lived  at  the  Main  near 
Jamestown  in  1624,  at  Elizabeth  City  in  1625,  (when  his  age  is.  given 
as  33  and  it  is  stated  he  came  in  the  Francis  Bonaventure  in  1620),  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Kiskiack  (in  the  neighborliood  of  the  present 
Yorktown)  in  1620.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Kiskiack  in  March,  1624-5,  for  that  place  and  the  Isle  of  Kent,  February, 
1631-2  and  for  Kiskiack,  Sept.,  1632,  and  February,  1632-3.  His  will 
was  proved  in  York  County  April  4,  1657.  His  first  wife  appears  to 
have  been  Jane,  widow  of  Lt.  Edward  Berkeley  and  his  second  Isabell 
Beech.  Captain  Martian  took  a  leading  part  in  the  first  Virginia  "re- 
bellion," that  against  Governor  Harvey  in  1635,  and  had  the  honor  to 
be  the  common  ancestor  of  Washington  and  Lee. 

The  "Publique  Congregation"  refers  to  the  members  of  the  church 
near  Hampton,  whose  foundations  were  discovered  not  long  ago. 


284  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Daye  of  februarye  w*=^  shalbe  in  the  yeere  of  o'  lord 
god  1625  Do  p  duce  and  send  over  from  George 
Gauntlett  A  Discharge,  that  m''  Rastell  shall  haue 
those  Deptes  retomed  him  againe. 

M'^  Rastell  Acknowledgeth  y*  he  hath  receaved  three 
hxmdred  and  fyf tye  pownde  waight  of  Tobacco  of 
Sargeant  W'm  Barry  and  John  Warde,  vppon 
Condicone  to  bringe  or  send  over  fower  servantes 
to  be  bounde  for  five  yeeres  apeece  at  o""  before 
Christmas  next  or  ellse  to  f  orf  ect  seaven  himdred 
pownd  waight  of  Tobacco 

M''  Threasurer  Doth  make  Choyse  for  five  hundred 
Acres  of  Land  at  Chapokes  Creeke  oposite 
against  Sandy  poynte  for  ye  land  dew  to  his  office 


[Ink  folio  74] 

A  Courte  held  the  24*'^  of  Januarye  1624 
present  S""  Franncis  Wyatt  knight,  &c 
Sr:  George  Yardley,  m''  Threasiirer,  Doctor 
Pott,  Capt  Hamer  &  Capt.  Smith, 

It  is  ordered  y*  m''  w™  Horwood  shall  paye  fower  barrells 
of  Come  and  the  remainder  of  two  hundred  pownd  waight 
of  Tobacco  w**"  in  for  Twenty  Days  next  after  ye  date 
hereof  to  Capt  Hamer  at  his  Dwelling  howse 
at  hog  Ilande 

Concerning  Capt  Peerce  his  peticione  it  is  thought  resonable 
y'  he  shvld  be  satisfied  for  the  loss  of  his  shallop,  but 
for  y*  there  is  noe  Publique  stock  to  satisfie  the  same 
it  is  refered  vnto  the  generall  Assembly 

Francis  Banck  swome  and  examined  sayeth  y*  m'  Cheale 
goeinge  from  the  forte  to  the  store  to  share  A  hogshed 


MINUTES   OF   COUNCIL   AND    GENERAL   COURT.  285 

of  Beeff,  Called  John  Bennett,  w'=^  then  stood  CenteneU  (5) 

to  go  w***  him,  and  John  Benett  sent  this  Examinat 

to  send  m""  Pinke  to  saide  Chealnell  in  his  place,  w^^  m''  Pinke 

refused  to  Doe,  and  this  Deponent  goinge  into  ye  field 

to  worke,  Francis  woodsome  was  then  CenteneU, 

after  this  m''  Pinke  cam  into  the  Field  and  went  & 

stoode  by  ye  men  y*  were  at  woorke  and  after  ye  men  had 

gone  throw  there  Roes  they  sate  Downe  to  Drinke  Tobacco 

and  m''  Pinke  sate  downe  w**"  them  and  after  this  Deponent 

cam  in  and  sate  Downe  w*^  them,  And  Francis  woodsome 

also,  but  whether  woodsome  were  cald  or  whether 

he  cam  of,  of  him  self  or  not,  he  knoweth  nott,  but 

whether  Henry  Pincke  cam  to  garde,  or  to  stande 

CenteneU  this  Deponent  knoweth  nott 


[Ink  folio  75] 
(9)  And  further  this  Exam'nt  sayeth  y*  when  the 
Alarm'  was  geven  Henry  Pinke  and  this  Exam'nt 
and  others  cam  to  the  olde  forte  whenc 
m''  Bate  w***  some  other  sett  them  ov  before. 
Cam  Bass  Came,  and  goinge  from  there  to 
the  other  forte  they  brought  of  to  o''  three 
of  the  slayne  men,  before  Capt'  Bass  cam  in 

(5)-This  entry  shows  that  in  1624  there  were  stores  or  warehouses  out- 
side the  palisades  of  the  fort  at  Jamestown  and  that  sentries  were  kept 
regularly  on  duty. 

(9)-These  entries  evidently  refer  to  an  attack  made  by  Indians  on  one 
of  the  Virginia  settlements  in  1623  or  1624.  It  is  probable  the  attack 
occurred  at  Warrosquoiacke  (present  Isle  of  Wight  Co.)  Captain  Nathan- 
iel Basse  of  Basses  Choice  in  1625,  was  then  aged  35  and  had  come  in  the 
Furtherance  in  1622.  On  June  2,  1620  and  January  30,  1621-2,  he 
with  his  associates,  Sir  Richard  Worsley,  Bart.  John  Hobson,  gent, 
and  Captain  Christopher  Lawne  agreed  with  the  Virginia  Company  to 
transport  100  persons  to  Virginia,  and  received  a  confirmation  of  their 
old  patent,  the  plantations  on  which  was  called  "The  Isle  of  Wight  Plan- 
tation." Captain  Basse  was  Burgess  for  Warrosquoiacke  March.  1623-4 
and  October,  1629. 

Basse's  choice  was  at  Warrosquoiacke.  Nearby  was  the  planta- 
tion of  Mr.  Edward  Bennett,  and  Henry  Pinke,  who  came  in  the  London 
Merchant  in  1619  and  John  Bate,  who  came  in  the  Addam  in  1621, 
were  included  among  Bennett's  servants  or  subordinates.  Bennett's  Plan- 
tation was  at  the  present  Rock  Wharf  on  James  River  and  Basse's  Choice 
was  not  far  below  on  the  west  side  of  the  mouth  of  Pagan  Creek. 


286  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

and  then  w*""  Capt'  Bass  his  help  they  brought 

of  the  rest 

M''  Francis  Bolton  minister  affirmeth  y*  p'sently 

vppon  the  Alarm  m''  Bates  Ariued  him  self 

w**"  as  much  speed  as  he  could  and  sett  owt  powder 

and  shott,  and  went  owt  of  the  forte  &  went 

to  rescue  the  men 

And  further  sayeth  y*  m""  Chewe  did  tell  him 

Since  it  Appeareth  y*  there  was  A  Centinnell  sett 
vppon  the  men,  And  that  by  his  necklect  in 
Cominge  of,  that  misfortune  happened,  and  him  selfe 
slayne,  There  appears  to  us  noe  Cause  to 
Censure  the  rest 

Capt  Hamer  at  this  Courte  Doth  assigne  over  to  m"" 
Richard  Kingsmill  one  hundred  acres  of  lande 
Dve  to  him  for  Transportation  of  two  and 
in  ye  yeere  of  the  lord  1617  in  the  good  ship 
caled  the  Edwyn,  the  names  of  ye  servants 
are,  Robert  Burte  and  W'm  Halila 


[Ink  folio  76] 

M""  W'm  Horwood  depaieth  y*  ye  busines  betweene  him  and 
Capt'  Hamer  Conceminge  John  Davis,  be  referred 
till  the  arrival  of  shipping  owt  of  England  at  w<^^ 
tyme  m""  Horwood  is  to  make  Satisfaction  or  ells 
the  business  to  be  Determined  by  the  Courte 

Edwarde  Grunden  (6)  gent  swome  and  Examined  sayeth,  that 
S""  Samuell  Argall  gave  Livt'  Batters  Certen 
land  in  James  Jland,  And  that  Livt'  Batters,  Did 


(6)-Edward  Grindon  was  Burgess  for  "Smythe's  Mount,"  the  other 
side  of  the  water  and  Hog  Island,  1622-23.  He  was  living  across  the  river 
from  Jamestown  February,  1623. 


MINUTES    OF   COUNCIL   AND   GENERAL   COURT.  287 

sell  ye  same  land  to  David  Ellis,  for  betwixt  thirty 
or  f  ortie  pownds  ster ' 

Addam  Dixon  sworae  and  examined,  affirmeth  ye  same 

Y*^  is  ordered  y*  upon  these  depositions  David  Ellis  shall  haue 

A  pattent 
of  the  same  lande,  w  therby  to  enable  him 
to  make  good  his  assignment  to  John  Raddishe 
and  John  Radish  his  sale  to  Sir  George 

John  Davis  swome  and  exam'd  sayeth 

Y*  is  ordered  y*  Rice  How  (7)  shall  Redeliuer 
the  man  servant  to  M'  Pallmer 

Silvester  Bullen  (8)  swome  and  Examined  sayeth'  y*  Robert 
marshall  Did  Accept  of  Certen  Comodities  he  bought 
of  Daniell  Lucy,  and  three  bushells  of  Come  in  full 
payment  for  A  Sowe  he  sold  m""  Lacye 


(7)-Rice  How  or  Hooe  (proper  form  of  the  name)  was  born  about 
1599,  and  came  to  Virginia,  not  in  1635,  as  has  been  heretofore  stated, 
but  at  least  as  early  as  1624.  He  patented  considerable  tracts  of  land 
in  James  City  and  Charles  City  Counties,  and  was  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  for  Shirley  Htmdred  Island  1642  and  for  Charles  City 
County  1644,  1645  and  1646.  The  destruction  of  the  records  of  Charles 
City  County  and  of  most  of  the  early  ones  of  Stafford  prevent  us  from 
ascertaining  his  relation  to  the    Hooes  of  Stafford,  King  George,  &c. 

In  the  census  of  1624-5,  in  Christopher  Woodward's  "Muster"  at 
West  and  Shirley  Hundred,  appear  his  own  name  and  those  of  his 
"partners"  John  Higgins  and  Rice  Howe,  who  was  then  aged  26  and  who 
came  in  the  Gifte  in  1618. 

In  the  remaining  records  of  vStafford  is  a  suit,  made  1690,  by  a  white 
servant  endeavoring  to  obtain  his  freedom.  He  states  that  he  was 
sold  to  Thomas  Howard,  deceased,  "predecessor  to  Mr.  Rice  Hooe" 
(which  means  that  Hooe  had  married  Howard's  widow)  and  had  served 
six  years,  making  it  about  1684,  when  he  was  sold.  In  the  same  county 
Court  in  1691  is  a  suit  against  Rice  Hooe,  who  married  Mary  Massey, 
widow.  In  a  deed  in  Stafford,  1701,  is  mention  of  a  mill  on  Occoquan 
built  by  the  father  of  Mr.  Rice  Hooe,  then  living.  The  Rice  Hooe  of 
the  text  was  probably  the  father  of  the  first  of  the  name  in  Stafford, 
though  there  is  no  positive  proof.  For  notes  on  Hooe  family,  see  this 
Magazine  IV.,  427-429;    XIII,  319-320. 

(8)-Silvestcr  Bullen,  aged  28  in  1625,  was  then  a  servant  to  Richard 
Tree  on  James  City  Island.  Robert  Marshall  and  Anne,  his  wife,  both 
of  whom  came  in  the  George,  were  living  at  James  City  Island  1625. 


288  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

[Ink  folio  77] 

Sargent  Thomas  Crampe  swome  &  Examined  sayeth 
y*  m""  Bess  Did  first  dress  Livt'  Harisons  wounde 

It  is  ordered  y*  yf  the  boy  be  to  serve 
after  the  masters  Death  y't  then  his  service 
the  p'vost  m  y*  George  menefree 
Doe  paye  one  hundred  and  Fiftie  pownd 
waight  of  Tobacco  to  the  p'vost  marshall 
owt  of  the  masters  wages  or  otherwyse 
to  shew  cause  to  the  Contrary  in  ye 
Courte  y*  next  mondaye 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  p'vost  marshall  shall 
have  a  pownde  of  Tobacco  of  every  one 
that  is  by  him  warned  to  the  Courte 

It  is  ordered  that  Capt :  Roger  Smyth  shall  have  paid 
him  by  the  Treaor  in  full  satisfacion  of  his  sal  arte 
agreed  vpon  for  his  vndertaking  of  the  Fort  att 
Warescoick  twelve  hundred  pownds  of  Tobacco,  and 
twelve  barrells  of  Indian  come,  w'=  tobacco  and  Come 
is  to  be  part  of  that  w°  is  due  to  the  Councell 
beinge  the  moyty  of  the  Companies  rentes,  and  what 
shall  remayne  of  Come  and  X  tobacco  to  be  equally 
divided  among  the  Councell 

Wassell  Rayner  (10)  swome  and  examined  sayeth  that  John 

Bath 
gent  lyeinge  Sicke  at  theire  m""  his  howse  made  a  will  wherein 
he  had  given  his  estate  to  A  yonge  woman  in  England  and 
aboute  A  moneth  after  y'  will  was  made  he  caled  to  m"" 
Stephens  boy  James  to  brtng  him  the  will  and  caused 
the  boy  to  caste  it  into  y''  fier  and  saw  it  bumte,  after  w*''' 
he  growinge  very  weake  Desired  m''  Richard  Stephens  to 


(lO)-Wassell  Rayner,  aged  28,  and  his  wife  Joane  were  among  the  ser- 
vants of  Richard  Stephens  at  James  City  in  1624-5. 


MINUTES    OF   COUNCIL   AND    GENERAL   COURT.  289 

take  his  estate  into  his  hands,  and  to  paye  his  Dept 

in  this  Countrey  and  to  retume  ye  remaynder  to  his  father 

in  London 

Joane  Rayner  wyeffe  to  wassell  Raynar  affirmeth  y«  same. 


[ink  folio  78] 

Thomas    Nunn    swome    and    Examined    sayeth,    That    John 

Crowd 'nt 
tooke  in  A  passenger  at  Salfordes  Creeke  and  was  to  land  him 
at  warishcoyke,  where  they  putt  in,  and  landed  the  said  pas- 
senger 
and  the  weather  growing  fowle,  and  they  haveinge  but  A  smale 
grapple  Ancher,  durst  nott  putt  owt  to  Sea,  but  hopinge 
that  ye  weather  would  breake  vpp,  they  staid  at  warishcoyke 
two  dayes  and  two  night,  dwringe  all  w'^'^  tyme  it  did 
rayne  very  much,  and  sayeth  yt  they  vsed  all  ye  best  meanes 
they  could  to  save  the  Tobacco,  by  Coveringe  it  wth  ye  Sailes 
w*^  matt  and  Rugg.  And  that  the  Tobacco  tooke  no  hurte 
through  any  Default  or  negligence  of  theirs.  And  further  this 
Examinat  saith  that  w*  Bargaine  or  Agreement  was  made 
betweene  Capt'  willcox  and  John  Crowdeck  he  knoweth  nott 

Edwarde  marshall  swome  and  examined  aihrmeth  all  that  to  be 
trew  w'''^  Thomas  nunn  hath  formerly  said. 

Thomas  Sulley  (11)  hath  Bargained  and  sold  his  six  Acres  of 
Lande  in  James  Cytie  Islande  to  Sr  George  Yardley  knight 
together  w'*"  the  Patent  thereof  for  ever,  for  w"*^  Sr : 
George  is  to  pay  him  one  hundred  pwnd  waight  of  the 
best  marchantable  Tobacco  in  good  meale,  yf  any  come  in 
or  ells  yf  meale  come  nott  in  in  other  goods  Comodities 
and  to  pay  m''  Cley bourne  for  makinge  the  Patent 


(ll)-Thomas  Sully,  yeoman  and  ancient  planter,  patented  sLx  acres  in 
James  City  1624.  He  was  aged  36  in  1625  and  had  come  in  the  Sara  in 
1611.  His  wife  Maudlyn,  aged  30,  had  come  in  the  London  Merchant  in 
1620. 


290  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

Persivall  wood  (12)  and  Ann  his  wyffe  hath  sold  one  Tenement 
and  twelve  Acres  of  grounde  lyinge  at  Black  poynte 
late  nathaniell  Hutts,  to  sr  George  Yardley  knight 
for  two  hundred  and  Fyftie  pownds  waight  of  the  best 
marchantable  Tobacco,  whereof  there  is  paide  in  hand 
one  hundred  sixtie  and  two  pownde 


[ink  folio  79] 

A  Courte  held  the  last  daye  of  January  1624 

beinge  present  Sr  Francis  Wyatt  knight  Gou'nor  &  C 

Sr  George  Yardley,  m''  Threar,  Doctor  Pott 

and  Capt'  Smith 

William  Englishe  (13)  swome  &  examined  sayeth  y*  Capt' 
willcox  and  John  Crowdick  had  speaches  at  Capt'  willcoxs 
house  for  Caryinge  of  Certen  Tobacco  to  James  Cyttie 
at  w*'''  tyme  John  Crowdick  did  vndertake  for  to 
deliver  his  Tobacco  in  safetie  at  James  Cyttie,  y'^  danger 
of  Sea  excepted 

Richarde  Arthur  swome  and  Examined  affirmeth 

as  much  as  William  Englishe  hath  saide 

And  further  this  Examinate  saith  that  Thomas  mun 

Conffed  at  Robert  pooles  howse  that  the  Tobacco 

was  sppoyld  through  meere  neckligence 

And  the  like  m*"  Englishe  by  the  oathe  he  hath  taken 

afhrmeth  he  hurd  Thomas  Mun  deliver  at  Robert 

pooles  howse 

And  further  these  deponent  sayeth  y*  Crowdick  was 

(12)-Percival  Wood  and  Anne,  his  wife,  both  of  whom  came  in  the 
George,  were  living  at  Mulberry  Island  in  January,  1624. 

(13)-William  English  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Elizabeth  City,  1629-1632  and  1632-3.  He  removed  to  the  neighbor- 
hood of  the  present  Yorktown,  was  a  justice  of  the  first  court  of  York  Co. 
on  July  12,  1863  and  in  1635,  when  he  was  Sheriff  of  the  county,  a  meeting 
at  which  the  deposition  of  Governor  Harvey  was  planned  was  held  at 
his  house. 


MINUTES    OF   COUNCIL   AND    GENERAL   COURT.  291 

ahead  of  Capt'  willcocks  boate  aboue  blunt  poynt 
and  that  the  winde  was  fayer  to  bring  them  to  James 
Cyttie 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  John  Croudicke  shall  paye  Capt'  willcoks 
one  hundred  and  fortie  pownds  waight  of  Tobacco,  and 
y**  said  Crowdick  shall  aft  loose  his  fraighte  w^** 
was  sixtie  pownds  waight  of  Tobacco 

Doctor  Pott  doth  afifirme  y*  Cominge  to  Capt'  Harvey  his 

howse 
together  w**"  him,  the  said  Capt'  Harvie  (william  mutch  (14) 

not 
beinge  at  home)  sent  for  him  to  speake  w*''  him,  and  when  he 
came,  Capt'  Harvey  desired  mutch  to  deliver  him  the  Covenant 
formerly  drawne,  to  w'^^  he  refused  replyed,  first  lett 
me  see  my  Come,  Capt'  Harvey  told  him  he  scorned  to  kepe 
back  his  Come,  mutch  replyed  againe  he  would  have  his 
corne  before  he  should  see  them.  Then  Capt'  Hai-vie  told 
him  he  was  an  idle  knave,  and  y*  he  could  find  in  his 
hart  to  Cudgell  his  Coate,  To  w'=^  mutch  answered  scome 
fully,  alas  Sr  it  is  not  in  you,  whereupon  Capt' 


[ink  folio  80] 

Harvie  stooke  over  y^  pate  w"^  his  Trunchione,  And 
he  saith  further  y*^  mutch  did  give  fu  other  p'  vokinge 
speeches, 

Yt  is  the  opinione  of  the  Courte  that  Christopher 

Barker  goinge  from  mr  Allnutt  Contrarie  to 

his  Covenant  w^''owt  shewinge  any  cause  in  Court 

why,  is  not  to  haue  any  recompenc  for  the  tyme  he  was  w***  mr 

Allnutt 
he  was  w^**  m'  Allnutt 

(14)-William  Mutch,  who  came  in  the  Jonathan,  and  his  wife  Margery, 
who  came  in  the  George  in  1623,  were  living  at  James  City  1625. 


292  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

John  How  gent  swome  and  examined  saith  that 
Thomas  Parke  before  his  goinge  from  Accomack 
beinge  moved  about  the  making  of  his  will,  hee 
made  answere,  it  hee  would  make  noe  will,  for 
that  he  had  given  all  hee  had  to  his  mate 
William  Bybby  (some  smale  parte  ther  of 
Tobacco  beinge  sent  to  his  mother  in  Englande 

John  wilkins  aflirmeth  the  same 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  w'm  Bybby  shall  keepe  the 
Come  now  in  his  handes,  and  y*  phetplace 
Close  shall  send  the  Tobacco  to  Parks  mother 
in  England 

Yt  is  ordered  y*  p'vost  marshall  shall  haue 
for  every  arest  for  his  Fee  two  pownde  of 
Tobacco  and  one  halfe  a  bushell  of  Come 

Thomas  Bum  and  John  Rowe  swome  and  examined  saith  that 
there  was  thre  acres  and  a  halfe  of  Come  w 

have  receved 
oin  w'^^  they  did  estimat  to  be  five  barrells 
of  Come  damage,  five  barrells  of  Come 
and  one  barell  of  Pease  and  beanes  but 
wherther  it  was  spoyled  by  swyne  or  no  they 
know  nott 

M'  Blayny  hath  agreed  to  paye  George  Fryer  &  Addam 
Dixson  forty  pownd  of  Tobacco  towards  there  loss 
in  the  Come 

(To  be  Continued) 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  293 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS 


For  the  Main  Army  under  Washington  1778-1779 


(From  the  Originals  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Histor- 
ical Society) 


(Continued) 


B.  O.  Oct'  25t'»  79 

The  Inhabitants  having  Requested  That  no  more  wood  may 
be  Cut  from  off  the  Land,  from  whence  the  Brigade  hath  hither- 
to been  Supplyed.  The  Brigade  Q.  M.  will  Derect  that  in 
future  the  wood  that  may  be  wanting,  While  the  Brigade  Oc- 
cupies its  present  Possion  be  Cut  from  off  the  follow'g  Lots 
Viz*,  Cornelius  Digroy's,  Timothy  Allistead  and  Gilberts  John- 
son's Lots  all  of  which  Lots  adjoin  the  present  Encamp*  on  the 
West  Side  he  will  apply  to  M""  Vaskey  who  will  shew  him  the 
Lots. 

Geo.  Gibson — Colo. 
Command*  Gen'l  Muhl'g.  Brigade 

D.  O.  Cacayett    Oct'  25*^^  79 

F.  O.  L*  Colo  Ball 

The  fatigue  party  making  fasheens  &c.  are  to  be  Ogmented 
to  morrow  morning  to  200  men,  to  work  in  5  Different  party's, 
Each  to  be  Comm'*  by  a  Cap'n  2  Sub's  &  3  Serj*'. 


294  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

The  Deputy  Q.  M.  Gen'l  will  point  out  the  Ground  where 
Each  party  is  to  work,  and  will  furnish  the  Necessary  Tools, 
This  party  to  be  Relieved  Every  morning  at  Troop  beating  and 
the  Cap*  Command'g.  Each  will  follow  Such  Directions  as 
may  be  Given  by  Cap'n  Hill  who  was  appointed  by  a  former 
Order  to  Superintend  this  work. 


For  Police 

Cap'n  Cambell 

For  the  Day 

Adj*  Sinton 
S            C            P 

For  P. 

1  Cap*  Hamilton 

For  in  G^ 

1 

For  Q'  G" 

1 

For  fati 

3 

James  Harper 
Cap*  Hamilton  Company  Orderly 

Book  for  1779 

D.  0.  Cacayett 

Thursday  ocf  2Q'^  79 

F.  0. 

L*  Colo  Hause 

The' Conductors  of  each  Brigade  are  to  Make  a  Report  Im- 
mediately to  the  Commanding  officers  of  Their  Brigades  how 
the  Artificers  under  their  Command,  has  been  Employ 'd  for 
the  last  week  past,  and  they  are  to  Continue  to  make  Such  Re- 
port Weekly. 


For  Police 

Capt  Mc  Elhiny(l) 

For  the  day 

Adj*  Merewether 
S            C             P 

For  picquet 

1 

For  in  G** 

1              1 

For  Q^  Gd 

For  fatigue 

3 

D.  A.  0.     Oct' 

26**' 

12 

o'clock 

(1)    John  Mc  Ilhaney,  Captain  of  a  Va.  State  regiment  April  1777 
to  May  1781. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  295 

The  Division  to  be  in  the  most  perfect  Readiness  to  march  at 
a  moments  Warning  all  the  waggon  horses  as  well  as  those  be- 
longing to  the  Artillary  as  others  to  be  brough  in  by  Day 
break  to  morrow  morning  and  kept  with  the  waggons  tUl  farther 
Orders 

Rec<^  27  at  7  o'clock  A  M 

B.  O.    Oct^  27*'^  79 

The  Brigade  will  march  precisely  at  8  o'clock  the  Command'g 
officers  of  Reg*^  are  Requested  to  have  Every  thing  to  be  put 
in  the  most  perfect  Readiness  that  nothing  may  Retard  the 
march  at  the  hour  appointed 

D.  O.  Cacayett   Oct^  27 ^^^  79 

The  Gen'l  to  beat  Immediately,  the  Assembly  half  an  hour 
after 

The  Division  to  march  by  the  Right  The  Rout  to  Suffems  all 
the  baggage  to  Go  in  the  Rear — The  Field  officer  of  the  day 
will  Call  in  his  picquets  And  form  a  Rear  Guard,  he  is  to  see  that 
every  thing  is  brought  up. 

D.  A.  O.  Suffem  Oct^  27^*^  79 

F.  O.  L*  Col'o  Gwatkins 

The  Troops  are  to  incamp  in  the  wood  Near  this  place,  And 
are  not  to  pitch  their  Tents — They  are  immediately  to  Draw 
provision  to  Compleat  them  to  the  3P*  Included,  which  they 
are  to  have  Cooked  this  Evening 

Every  man  fit  for  Duty  is  to  march  at  5  o'clock  to  morrow 
morning 

The  Gen'l  will  beat  at  half  past  4  Such  men  as  are  indisposed 
and  not  fit  for  Actual  Service  Are  to  be  left  with  the  Baggage 
Under  Com''  of  a  field  officer,  who  will  call  on  Gen'l  Woodford 
for  Instructions  uhis  Evening. 

They  Artillary  with  their  waggons  And  the  waggons  wnth 
Spare  Ammunition  for  the  Brigades  are  to  march  with  the 


296  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Troops,  all  the  Rest  of  the  Waggons  and  baggage  are  to  be  left. 
The  Officers  will  take  out  Such  Articles  as  the  want  this  Even- 
ing that  no  Delay  may  happen  in  the  morning.  The  Com- 
mandants of  Regm*^  are  Desired  to  attend  themselves  to  the 
Alloting  out  of  the  Men  that  Remain  And  not  to  Sujffer  any 
to  do  so  that  are  Capable  of  marching,  nor  any  to  march  that 
are  weak  and  imable  to  do  So. 

B.  O.  Oct^  27^'^  79 

Major  Mitchel  is  appointed  to  do  the  duty  of  Brigade  Major 
and  Inspector  while  Major  Cabell  is  doing  the  Duty  of  Deputy 
Adj  *  Gen'l  and  is  to  be  obeyed  &  Respected  Accordingly. 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Cary    S               C               P 

For  picquet  1                                1 

For  in  G^  1 

For  Q'  G^  1 

B.  O.      Oct'  28*''  79 

The  Brigade  to  hold  themselves  in  the  most  perfect  Readiness 
to  march  at  a  moments  Warning  &  neither  officer  or  Soldier  to 
be  absent  upon  any  pretence  whatever 

D-  O.  Pomton  Oct'  28*^  79 

F-  O-  L*  Col'o  Dabney 

The  Troops  will  probably  Remain  upon  the  present  Groimds 
this  night  The  will  therefore  make  the  Necessary  preparation, 
at  the  Same  time  holding  themselves  in  Constant  Readiness  to 
m.arch  at  the  Shortest  Notice. 

The  most  effectual  Method  to  be  taken  to  prevent  the  men 
from  Stragling 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  297 

The  F.  O.  of  they  day  will  Reconmter  the  Groirnd  and  place 
his  picquet. 

P 
Piquet  1 

InG'i  1 

Q'G'i  1 

D.  O.  Pompton    Oct'29*i'79 

F.  Officer  Lieu*  Col'o  Alison 

The  mens  Arms  to  be  Carefully  Examined  &  to  be  put  in  the 
best  of  Order,  also  their  flints  &  Amunition. 

No  Officer  or  Soldier  to  leave  Camp  on  any  pretence,  But  be 
in  Constant  Readiness  to  march. 

The  Commanding  officers  of  Reg*'  to  see  that  those  men  are 
Supplyed  with  Shoes  that  are  in  the  greatest  want,  That  none 
may  have  an  Occation  to  Complain  of  being  bear  footed  when 
we  Come  to  march. 


For  the  Day 

Ad 

j*  Bown 

S 

c 

P 

For  picquet 

1 

1 
1 

D.  0.  Pompton. 
F.O. 

Ocf 

30*»>  79 

Major 

■  Stephens 

The  Troops  to  hold  themselves  in  Readiness  to  march  to  mor- 
row morning  at  [  4  ?  ]  O'clock,  The  horses  to  be  provided 
with  Forage  to  night  as  the  may  be  kept  in  place. 

D.  O.  Suffems  Sunday  Oct'  31"*  79 
F.  O.  Major  Lee 

The  Troops  are  to  Continue  their  march  by  the  Left  with  all 
their  Baggage  The  Rout  of  Stony  point  The  Greatest  Expe- 


298 


VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 


dition  to  be  used  in  Drawing  the  Provision  as  the  are  to  move 
ofiE  the  Ground  precisely  at  3  o'clock. 


For  the  Day 


Adj*  Merewether 


D.  O.  Cacayett  Nov.  P*  79 

F.  O.  Col'o  Gist 

The  Rest  of  the  Shoes  in  possession  of  Lieu*  Moten  to  be 
Divided  this  Evening  in  proportion  To  the  Strenght  of  each 
Corps.  Including  the  Artillary  The  Regimental  paymasters  will 
apply  Accordingly. 

The  Division  to  hold  themselves  in  Readiness  to  march  at  a 
moments  warning,  But  not  to  Strick  their  Tent  'till  beating  of 
the  Gen'l.  The  Division  to  be  Inspected  on  Wednesday  &  Thurs- 
day Next  Begining  with  the  2<i  Virg'a  Reg*  on  Wednesday 
morning  at  9  o'clock. 


For  police 
For  the  Day 

Cap*  Tho^  Ewell 
Adj*Cary 

S 

C 

P 

For  picquet 
For  in  G^^ 
Q'G^ 

■} 

3 

D.  0.  Cacayett  Nov^  2^^  79 


F.  O. 
Brigade 
For  Police 
For  the  Day 

For  Picquet 
Q^G'i 


Col'o  Nevell 
Major  Mitchel 
Cap*  Boswell 
Adj*  Robertson 


G.  O.       Head  Q"  Moores  house,  Oct^  20*^  1779 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  299 

Every  Reg*  that  has  more  marqies  Horseman's  Tents,  Sol- 
diers Tents  than  the  proportion  directed  in  Gen'l  Orders  of  the 
21^^  of  may  Last  must  Immediately  Deliver  them  over  to  their 
Brigade  Q"'  M""  who  are  to  forward  them  to  Col'o  Hay  at  Fish- 
kill  landing. 

D.  O.  Cacayett.    Nov'  Z^  79 


A  Gen'l  Court  martial  of  the  Line  will  Set  Next  Thursday 
at  10  O  Clock  A,  M.  at  the  Garrison  of  West  Point  For  the 
Trial  of  Cap*  Kirkpatrick  (2),  all  Evidences  and  persons  Con- 
cerned to  attend  The  Trial  at  Said  time  &  place. 

B.  O.     Nov'  3^   79 

A  Brigade  Court  martial  Set  this  day  at  10  o'clock,  for  the 
Trial  of  Such  prisoners  as  Shall  be  brought  before  them.  Lievi* 
Colo  Allison  will  preside 

D.  O.  Cacayett  Wednesday  Nov'  3^^  79 
F.  O.  Colo  Brent 

Brigade  Major  Croghan 

The  Division  to  march  to  morrow  morning  at  8  o'clock,  By 
the  Left  The  Rout  for  Stoney  point.  The  Gen'l  to  beat  7  and 
the  Tents  and  Baggage  to  be  immediately  packed  up. 

The  Forage  masters  to  be  perticular  Carcfull  in  the  manner 
of  Issuing  of  Forage.  To  Give  out  agreeable  to  Gen'l  Regula- 
tion and  not  to  Suffer  Officers  batemen  or  waggoners  to  take  any 
more  than  the  States  Allowance  on  any  pretence  whatever,  as 


(2)  Abraham  Kirkpatrick— 1st  Lieutenant  8th  Va.,  March  22d,  1776; 
Regimental  Adjutant,  April  2d,  1777;  Captain,  August  10th,  1777;  trans- 
ferred to  4th  Va.  Sept.  14,  1778,  and  served  to  the  close  of  the  war. 


300  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

the  will  be  made  answerable  to  their  Conduct  in  this  particu- 
lar. 

The  Difficulty  in  procuring  forage  makes  it  Necessary  tha* 
the  Greatest  Oconemy  Shotdd  be  Observed  in  that  article.  Th^ 
Col's  and  Other  F.  Officers  are  Requested  to  take  notice  of  th^ 
manner  of  Issuing  in  Each  Brigade,  And  to  Report  to  the  Com" 
m'g  Officer  any  waste  that  may  be  made. 

1  Sub.  1  Serj*  &  16  privates  to  march  immediately  as  a 
Guard  to  the  Virg'a  Clothing  Com'y  on  from  Tren  Town — The 
Officer  to  Call  on  Gen'l  Woodford  for  Instructions. 

The  Majors  of  Brigades  will  attend  daily  at  the  Deputy 
Adj*«  Gen'ls  Q"  for  orders  at  12  o'clock. 

A  Court  of  Inquiry  from  the  Division,  Consisting  of  a  field 
officer  2  Cap**  2  Subs  to  Set  to  morrow  to  inquire  into  a  Late 
Dispute  between  Cap*  Stocks  of  the  2^  Reg*  and  M"'  Thornton 
Taylor  Conductor  to  Gen'l  Woodfords  Brigade. 

The  president  will  make  a  Report  of  the  proceedings  to  the 
Command 'g  officer  of  the  Division. 

For  police  Capt  Tabb 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Bown 

S  C             P 

For  picket  1 

For  in  Gd  1 

For  Q'  C*  11 

D.  O.  Cacayett  Thursday  Nov'  4*'"  79 

F.  O.  Lieu*  Col'o  Gwaskins  (3) 

Brigade  Major  Mitchel 

A  Guard  of  1  Sub.  1  Serj*  &  15  men  to  be  left  on  the  Ground 
to  take  Care  of  the  Forage  untill  the  waggons  Can  be  Sent  for 

(3)  Lt.  Col.  Gaskins  is  evidently  intended. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  301 

it.  If  there's  any  Baggage  that  Cannot  be  Carried  with  the 
Troops  it  must  be  Brought  up  in  the  Same  manner,  The  Com- 
manding officer  of  the  Regm*'  it  belong  to,  Leaving  proper 
Guard  to  take  Care  of  it.  The  Assembly  to  beat  at  10  o'clock 
and  the  Troops  to  begin  their  March  immediately 

For  police  Captain  Lamb 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Merewether 

S  C             P 

For  picket  1 

For  in  G"^  1 

Q'  Guard  1 

D.  A.  O.  Nov  4*^  79 

The  Gen'l  to  beat  half  past  Six  the  Assembly  half  past  7  when 
the  Troops  are  to  march  to  their  place  of  Encampm*  which  will 
be  Shewn  to  them  by  the  Deputy  Q.  M.  Gen'l. 

D.  O.    Havarstraw  NoV  5**^  79 
F.  O.  L*  Colo.  Dabney 

B.  Major  Craughan 
for  police  Cap*  Tabb 

For  the  day  Adj*  Gary 

D.  A.  O.   Nov^  5*^  79.  6  o'clock  P.  M. 

200  men  properly  officered  to  Employed  tomorrow  in  making 
Fasheen  &c.  Under  the  Directions  of  Cap''  Hill  agreeable  to  a 
former  order.  They  are  to  parade  at  8  o  'clock. 

The  Same  Number  to  be  furnished  daily  imtill  farther  orders. 
The  D.  Q.  M.  Gen'l  will  furnish  Tools  and  point  out  the  Ground 
for  the  Different  parties  to  work. 

The  Distruction  of  Chimleys  or  Seting  fire  to  any  Conven- 
iencys  that  is  made  while  The  Troops  lay  at  an  Encampm*  is 


302  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

Positively  forbid  in  future,  And  the  officers  Commanliing  Reg*' 
are  Requested  to  see  that  the  fires  are  put  out  before  we 
march  that  no  Damage  may  be  Done  to  the  neighbourhood 
thereby 


B.  O.   Nov'  5'^  79 

The  Court  martial  whereof  Lieu*  Colo.  Allison  was  president 
is  Disolved  and  prisoners  now  in  the  provost  to  be  sent  for  by 
their  respective  Reg*^  where  they  are  to  be  Tried. 

D.  O.  Havarstraugh  Nov'  6**^  1779 
F.  O.  Lieu*  Colo.  AlHson 

B.    Major  Mitchel 


One  F.  officer,  3  Captains  &  6  Subs  with  200  men  are  to  Go 
upon  fatigue  to  morrow  morning  at  8  o'clock  to  Stoney  point. 
They  will  Draw  provision  to  Compleat  them  for  3  Days  when 
a  party  of  the  Same  Strenght  is  to  Relieve  them — The  Com- 
mand'g  officer  will  take  his  Directions  from  Colo.  Gouvian  the 
Engineer — A  sufficient  niunber  of  Tents  to  Cover  the  party 
must  be  Drawn  from  the  Division,  by  the  D.  Q.  M.  G.  and  Sent 
Down  in  the  waggon  these  Tents  will  Remain  so  long  as  a  fiti- 
gue  party  will  Continue  to  work  these  Tools  will  be  furnished 
by  the  Engineer,  A  Return  to  be  Given  in  this  afternoon  of  all 
the  Carpenters  in  the  Division  who  are  wanting  to  work  at  Ston- 
ey point  while  the  Division  Remains  here  only  The  Engineer 
has  promised  that  these  Artificers  shall  have  his  order  for  addi- 
tional pay  &  Rations. 


The  Muster  M.  will  be  Ready  to  muster  the  Division  on  mon- 
day  the  Eight  Instant  beginning  on  the  Right  of  Gen'l  Wood- 
fords  Brigade  at  7  Oclock  in  the  morning  and  on  the  Right  of 
Gen'l  Muhlenbergs  at  1  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  303 

The  Officers  will  have  Every  thing  in  Readiness  accordinglv. 

For  fatigue  Colo.  Russell 

For  Police  Cap*  Nobody 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Robertson 

D.  O.   Havarstraw  Nov'  7'''  79 

F.  O.  Major  Clark 

B.  Major  Croughan 

The  field  Officers  of  the  Division  are  Requested  to  meet  at 
Gen'l  Woodfords  Quarters  to  morrow  morning  at  10  o'clock. 


For  Police 

Captain  Brakenrige 

For  the  Day 

Adjt 

Bown 

S                  C 

P 

For  Picquet 

inC 

1 

Q'G'i 

1 

Fatigue 

1 

3 

5  Total 


D.  A.  O.  Nov'  7*''  79  6  Oclock  P.  M. 


The  Division  to  hold  themselves  in  the  most  Perfect  Readiness 
to  march  at  a  moments  warning.  The  Q.  M.  G.  Department  to 
have  every  thing  Ready — 

D.  O.  Havartraugh  monday  Nov'  8"'  79 

F.  O.  M.  Webb 

B.  Major  Mitchel 

B.  O.  Nov  S*''  79 

As  a  General  Inspection  will  talce  place  in  a  few  days,  The 
Gen'l  Requests  of  the  Comm'g  officers  of  Regiments  will  use 


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Every  Method  in  their  power  to  have  the  Cloth'g  of  the  men  in 
Repair  that  they  may  appear  as  neat  and  Direct  as  possible. 

P.  Mtihlenberg  B.  G. 
For  PoHce  Cap*  Winston 

For  the  Day  Adj  *  Lington 

S  C  P 

Picquet  0 


InGd 


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Fatigue  3 


GENEALOGY.  306 


GENEALOGY 


THE  BEVERLEY  FAMILY 

(Continued) 

34.  Carter^  Beverley  (Robert-*)  was  bom  in  1774,  and  died  Feb.  10, 
1844.  He  was  a  Justice  of  Culpeper  County  in  1799  and  afterwards  lived 
in  Augusta  Covinty.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Ralph  Wormley,  of 
"Rosegill,"  Middlesex  County. 

Issue:  42.     Eleanor  (The  "Carter  Tree"  says  she  married Goodall; 

but  a  newspaper  in  1820  gives  a  notice  of  the  marriage  of  "Eleanor  W. 
daughter  of  Carter  Beverley"  and  Francis  Gildart  of  Mississippi;  43. 
Rebecca  married  John  Meade;  44.  Elizabeth  B.  married  Captain  Ed- 
ward B.  Randolph;  44.  Ann  T.  married  Dr.  Carter  Randolph;  45.  Rob- 
ert^,  died  without  issue;  45a.    William® married Crain;46.  Carter*. 

35.  Robert^  Beverley  (Robert*),  of  "Blandfield,"  Justice  of  Middle- 
sex 1795,  and  of  Essex;  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Tayloe,  of 
"Mt.  Airy,"  Richmond  County. 

Issue:  47.     William  B.®,  of  "Blandfield,"  died  unmarried;  48.  Maria, 

married  Dr.  Clarke;  49.  Rebecca  Tayloe,  died  Sept.  28,  1822;  50. 

J.  Bradshaw®  (of  whom  later);  51.  Jane,  died  Sept.  28,  1822,  aged  17 
years;  52.  Rolserta  married  William  Lightfoot. 

38.  Peter  Randolph^  Beverley  (Robert*).  In  a  suit  in  Augusta  Co., 
Va.,  dated  1802  he  is  styled  "late  of  Bordeaux,  France,  but  now  of 
York  County,  England."  Like  many  Americans  he  had  probably  tried 
a  mercantile  venture  at  Bordeaux,  but  in  1802  was  with  his  brother 
William  in  Yorkshire.  He  married,  possibly  at  Bordeaux,  Lovely  St. 
Martin,  and  returned  to  Virginia. 

Issue:  53.  Eglantine,  married  Robert  Randolph;  54.  Peter";  56. 
Amarylis;  57.  Stanislaus^,  died  unmarried;  58.  Euphroisie;  59.  Con- 
stantine*,  born  1811,  died  Jan.  12,  1872,  at  New  Orleans,  where  he  had 
lived  thirty-four  years. 

39.  McKenzie^  Beverley  (Robert*)  of  Spotsylvania  Co.  married 
Isabella  Gray. 

Issue:  60.  Robert^,  died  unmarried;  61.  Byrd',  died  unmarried;  62. 
William®,  63.  Lovely,  married Brown;  64.  Francis  C.',  Clerk  of  Spot- 
sylvania County  1875-1881,  married  Gale,  and  had  issue:  Lucy^, 


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William^,  and  Berta';  65.  James ^,   married  Shemansky  and  had 

issue:  Louisa^  and  Belle^;  66.  Tucker 8. 

50.     J.  Bradshawo  Beverley  (Robert^),  married  Jane  Peter. 

Issue:  67.  Sarah,  married  Edward  Turner;  68.  Robert ''^  (of  whom 
later);  69.  Rebecca,  married  Thomas  Henderson;  69.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Brigadier  General  Montgomery  D.  Corse,  C.  S.  A;  70.  William^, 
married  Fanny  Gray  (and  had  issue:  Bradshaw^,  William^  and  Robert**); 
71.     Mary,  married  Arthur  Chichester. 

68.  Col.  Robert^  Beverley  (J.  Bradshaw^),  of  "Blandfield,"  and  of 
Fauquier  County.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  Confederate  army.  President 
of  the  Virginia  State  Agricultural  Society,  and  was  an  agriculturist  of 
wide  note  and  large  estates.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Hill 
Carter,  of  "Falkland." 

Issue:  72.  Eliza,  married  Stevens  Mason;  73.  Bajmton 8;  74.  Virginia 
married  Rev.  John  McGill;  75.  William*,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Richard  H.  Carter;  77.  Hill*;  78.  Rebecca,  married  William  Her- 
bert of  Baltimore;  79.  Robert*,  married  Richardetta,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard H.  Carter;  80.     Bradshaw*. 

There  are,  of  course,  later  generations  of  these  lines,  not  included  in 
this  genealogy. 

(To  be  Continued) 


SLAUGHTER  FAMILY 

(Compiled  by  the  late  John  S.  Carpenter,  Louisville,  Ky.) 

Arms:  Argent,  a  saltire  azure. 

Crest:  Out  of  a  ducal  coronet,  or,  an  eagle's  head  between  wings  ad- 
dorsed,  azure,  beaked  or. 

Motto:  Invictae  Fidelitatis  Praemium. 

The  above  described  arms  are  found  on  a  seal  to  a  bond  bearing  date 
of  1685,  signed  by  William  Slaughter,  High  Sheriff  of  Essex  County,  Va. 
They  correspond  with  the  arms  of  the  Slaughters  of  Gloucester  and  Wor- 
cester in  England,  as  given  by  Burke  in  his  "Landed  Gentry." 

The  Slaughters  were  among  the  earlier  settlers  in  Virginia.  There 
were  two  of  the  name,  John  and  William,  in  Virginia  prior  to  1620.  Wil- 
liam was  killed  in  the  great  Indian  Massacre  of  March  22,  1622. 


GENEALOGY.  307 

1.  John  Slaughter  had  numerous  grants  of  land,  by  purchase  and 
for  the  importation  of  immigrants,  between  the  years  1620  and  1635. 
He  had  three  sons.      [This  is  only  a  conjecture. — Editor.] 

2.  I.     Francis. 

II.  William. — He  was  High  Sheriff  of  Essex  County  in  1685. 
He  married  Phoebe,  daughter  of  Colonel  Toby  Smith 
of  Rappahannock,  and  widow  of  William  Hodgkins, 
who  died  in  1673.  She  married  as  her  third  husband 
William  Peachey  and  died  in  1710,  her  will  having 
been  proved  in  Essex  County  on  April  10  of  that  year. 
William  Slaughter  left  no  issue. 
III.  Richard.— He  had  grants  of  land  in  1652,  1655,  1679,  1689, 
etc.  No  record  of  his  marriage  or  of  his  having  left 
issue. 

2.  Capt.mn  Francis  Slaughter,  ^  (John^)  the  eldest  son  of  John,  was 
bom  about  1630  and  died  1656-7.  He  was  Captain  of  Militia,  Justice  for 
Rappahannock,  a  planter  and  merchant.  He  married  about  1652,  Eliz- 
abeth Underwood,  sister  of  Colonel  William  Underwood,  and  his 
wife  Margaret.  Elizabeth  (Underwood)  Slaughter  married  secondly. 
Colonel  John  Catlett,  Presiding  Justice  for  Rappahannock,  who  was 
killed  by  the  Indians  in  1671,  while  defending  a  frontier  fort.  In  1672-3, 
the  twice  widowed  Elizabeth  Underwood  married  the  Rev.  Amory 
Butler.     She  died  in  1673.     The  following  is  an  abstract  of  her  will: 

Legatees:  "son,  Francis  Slaughter,  all  the  furniture  of  my  chamber, 
except  a  chest  of  drawers,  which  I  give  to  my  daughter,  Sarah,  and  a 
close-stool  to  my  son,  John  Catlett — to  son,  Francis  Slaughter,  all  goods, 
money,  plate,  and  rings,  mentioned  in  an  accoimt  in  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Daniel  Gaines;  also  one  negro  boy,  and  an  equal  share  of  my  stock  of 
pewter,  brass  and  iron  also  a  great  chair,  a  small  couch,  a  chest,  and  such 
other  things  in  the  house  as  my  mother  gave  me  by  her  will, — to  daughter 
Elizabeth,  the  bed  and  furniture  now  in  the  dining  room,  the  press  and 
cushion — great  looking  glass,  drawing  table  and  Turkey  Carpet,  and  my 
childbed  linen,  blankets,  and  fine  basket,  my  wedding  ring,  my  biggest 
diamond  ring,  gilded  bodkin,  necklace  with  the  biggest  pearls,  a  small 
bible,  silver  sucking  bottle  and  the  small  Cabinet.  To  daughter,  Sarah, 
two  of  my  biggest  stone  rings,  the  small  pearl  necklace,  silver  bodkin, 
my  new  trunk,  napkin  press,  a  small  bible,  small  testament,  a  dram  cup, 
my  wedding  ring  and  an  oval  table. — to  son,  John,  a  small  diamond  ring, 
the  map  in  the  dining  room,  a  rapier,  a  great  cutlash,  a  pair  of  silver  but- 
tons, a  pair  of  silver  buckles,  and  the  antimonial  cup. — to  son,  William, 
a  small  cutlash,  a  ring  with  the  stone  enameled  blue,  a  silver  seal. — to 
two  daughters,  all  my  wearing  apparel,  clothes  and  linen. — to  sons,  John 
and  William,  all  my  books,  according  to  the  inventory. — to  sons, John  and 
William,  and  two  daughters,  all  of  my  plate,  except  three  spoons,  and  also 


308  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

to  them,  all  pewter,  brass,  linnen  and  other  household  stuff  not  otherwise 
bequeathed. — to  three  sons,  each  a  carbine. — to  the  four  children  of  hus- 
band, John  Catlett,  a  gray  mare  and  furniture;  to  cousin,  Wm.  Underwood 
the  elder,  one  colt. — to  cousin,  Himiphrey  Booth,  a  chest  and  goods  which 
were  my  mothers. — to  cousin,  Catherine  Booth,  a  silver  candle  cup  which 
was  her  grandmother's — to  sister  Pierce,  a  mourning  ring.  My  executors 
shall  supply  what  tobacco  may  be  needed  for  my  children's  education 
in  England,  according  to  my  deceased  husband's  will.  What  money 
remains  in  the  hands  of  Messrs.  Gifford  and  Mttnford  in  London,  to  be 
used  for  the  purchase  of  furniture  for  my  son  Francis  Slaughter,  in  lieu 
of  what  his  father-in-law  owed  him — Beloved  husband,  Amory  Butler, 
executor,  and  my  cousin,  Captain  Thos.  Hawkins,  my  brother,  Edward 
Rowzee  and  Mr.  Daniel  Gaines,  overseers  of  my  will — to  brother  Booth's 
children,  several  cattle. — to  beloved  husband,  Amory  Butler,  a  bed, 
furniture,  and  a  mourning  ring." 

Captain  Slaughter's  will  was  proved  in  Essex  County  in  1657.  Legacies 
to  his  mother-in-law,  Margaret  Upton,  (she  had  married  as  her  second 
husband,  Lt.  Col.  John  Upton);  to  brother-in-law.  Col.  Moore  Faunt- 
leroy,  rapier  and  saddle  mare;  to  brother-in-law,  Humphrey  Booth,  cloth 
for  suit  of  clothes  to  his  overseer,  etc;  wife  Elizabeth,  executrix,  issue: 

3.  1.    Francis. 

3.  Francis  Slaughter,^  (Francis^  John  i)  only  son  of  Captain  Francis 
and  Elizabeth  Underwood  Slaughter  was  bom  in  Essex  Coimty  about 
1653.  He  was  a  planter  in  Richmond  Coiinty,  and  died  in  1718,  his  will 
dated  Nov.  6,  1718,  having  been  proved  on  March  4,  1718-9.  He  directs 
that  his  goods  made  over  to  his  wife  by  a  deed  of  gift  before  marriage 
be  well  and  truly  paid,  and  that  as,  with  his  wife's  consent  he  had  sold 
a  negro  called  Frank,  given  her  by  that  deed,  which  was  in  lieu  of  dower, 
he  directs  that  she  be  given  a  negro  called  Caesar.  His  will  further 
provides  that  his  wife  be  given  corn  in  the  ground  and  other  necessaries 
for  the  maintenance  of  her  family.  All  the  rest  of  his  estate,  real  and 
personal  he  bequeathed  to  his  daughters,  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  Son- 
in-law,  John  Taylor,  sole  executor.  By  his  wife,  Margaret  Hudson, 
whom  he  married  about  1679,  Francis  Slaughter  has  issue: 

4.  L     Robert.     [Though  most  probably  a  son  of  Francis,  no  re- 

cord evidence  of  the  fact  is  given. — Ed.] 
IL     William.     He  was  a  beneficiary  xmder  the  will  of  his  father's 
half-brother.  Col.  John  Catlett,  the  second, 
in.     Martha    (or   Margaret).     She   was  probably  the   wife   of 
John  Taylor,  son-in-law  and  executor  named  in  Francis 
Slaughter's  will. 
IV.    Mary. 
V.     Elizabeth. 


GENEALOGY.  309 

4.  Robert  Slaughter*  (Francis  3-2johni),  was  born  about  the  year 
1680.  He  was  a  prosperous  planter  of  Essex  County,  where  he  lived  and 
died.  He  had  extensive  grants  of  land  in  Spottsylvania  County  (1719 
and  1723),  part  of  which  was  transferred  to  his  sons  during  his  lifetime, 
and  the  remainder  bequeathed  to  them  by  his  will.  He  married  about  the 
year  1700  Frances  Anne  Jones,  daughter  of  Lt.  Colonel  Cadwalader 
Jones,  and  grand-daughter  of  Richard  Jones,  a  wealthy  merchant  of 
London,  and  the  owner  of  a  considerable  landed  estate  in  County  Devon- 
shire, England.  The  following  is  an  abstract  of  Robert  Slaughter's 
will,  dated  Feb.  5,  1725,  and  proved  in  Essex  County  on  August  16,  1726: 

"To  loving  wife  Frances  Slaughter,  two  negro  men  named  Jack  and 
Tony;  to  son  Francis  one  thousand  acres  of  land  lying  in  the  forks  of 
the  Rappahannock  River,  one  negro  boy  named  Fanny,  one  negro  girl 
named  Cate  and  their  increase;  to  son  Robert  one  negro  woman  named 
Moll  and  her  two  children  named  Harry  and  Toney  and  their  increase,  one 
cow  and  calf;  to  son  Thomas,  one  tract  of  land  lying  at  the  Little  Moun- 
tains containing  two  hundred  and  fourteen  acres,  one  tract  of  land  lying  at 
the  Black  Walnut  Rim,  and  one  tract  of  land  lying  on  the  Moimts  Creek 
containing  three  hundred  acres,  also  negro  boy  named  Ben,  negro  girl 
Beck  and  their  increase;  remainder  of  estate  to  loving  wife  Frances  and 
to  sons  Francis  and  Thomas.     Executor  Francis  Slaughter. 

Robert  and  Frances  Anne  Slaughter  had  issue: 

5.  I.    Francis. 

6.  II.     Robert. 

7.  III.    Thomas  of  Caroline  County. 

5.  Colonel  Francis  Slaughter*  (Robert*,  Francis'-^,  John*),  eld- 
est son  of  Robert  and  Frances  Anne  (Jones)  Slaughter  was  bom  in  Essex 
County  about  1701.  After  his  fathers  death  he  removed  to  Culpeper, 
where  he  died  in  1766,  his  will  dated  Sept.  18,  1765,  with  codicil  dated 
Sept.  22,  1765,  having  been  proved  in  May  1766.  He  was  a  large  land- 
owner in  Culpeper  and  Orange.  He  was  commissioned  Captain  of  Militia 
on  Feb.  2,  1730;  later  Colonel  of  Militia,  Justice,  Vestryman,  Church 
Warden,  etc.  He  married  on  June  3,  1729,  Ann  Lightfoot  by  whom  he 
had  issue: 

8.  I.    Francis. 

9.  II.    John. 

III.    Reuben— bom  1733. 
10.  IV.     Cadwalader. 

V.  Frances,  bom  1737.  She  married  Captain  William  Ball, 
Vestryman  of  St.  Mark's  Parish.  He  was  the  son  of 
Samuel  3  (William  2- *)  Ball  and  of  Ann  Catharine  (Tay- 
loe)  Ball,  and  a  cousin  of  Mary  Ball,  the  mother  of 
Washington. 


310  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

VI.  Daughter.  She  married  Edward  Thomas.  Their  only 
son  Edward  Thomas  removed  to  Nelson  Cotinty, 
Kentucky,  and  represented  that  County  in  the  Kentucky 
House  of  Representatives  in  1793.  His  wife  was  Susan- 
nah Beall,  daughter  of  Walter  Beall,  a  member  of  the 
first  Constitutional  Convention  of  Kentucky.  Issue: 
Lucinda,  married  Dr.  Wm.  Elliott  of  New  Haven, 
Ky.   Amanda,  married  Mr.  Bamett. 

(To  be  Continued) 


THE    ANCESTORS    AND     DESCENDANTS    OF    JOHN    ROLFE 
WITH  NOTICES  OF  SOME   CONNECTED    FAMILIES. 


ROLLING  OF  YORKSHIRE  AND  LONDON 

Cudworth's  "History  of  Bolton  and  Bowling"  (Bradford,  1891)  con- 
tains a  considerable  amoimt  of  information  in  regard  to  the  early  history 
of  the  Boiling  family,  which  was  long  resident  in  the  vicinity  of  Brad- 
ford and  Bolton.  The  author  states  that  the  spelling  "Bowling"  is  a 
modernisation.  The  first  mention  he  gives  of  the  Boiling  family  is  in 
a  poll  or  head  tax  list  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  township  of  Boiling,  in 
the  year  1379.  First  in  the  list  appears  Johannes  de  Bollyng,  Esquier, 
&  uxor  [wife]  Vjs  Vlljh  (6sh-8d.) 

"The  principal  contributor,  who  in  fact  paid  more  than  all  the  re- 
mainder of  the  inhabitants  of  the  township,  was  John  de  Boiling.  He  is 
therefore  styled  'esquire.'  The  Boilings  were  not  only  the  first  family 
of  any  importance  which  took  its  name  from  the  township,  but  it  was  of 
considerable  repute  in  this  part  of  Yorkshire  generally.  The  proofs  of 
this  fact  are  numerous.  From  evidences  collected  by  Mr.  Empsall,  and 
presented  to  the  Bradford  Antiquarian  Society,  illustrating  the  entire 
history  of  this  family,  we  learn  that  towards  the  close  of  the  twelth  cen- 
tury one  Tristram  Boiling  was  in  the  service  of  King  John,  and  was 
largely  concerned  in  his  interests,  and  as  reward  he  received  property 
in  Boiling.     To  this  circumstance  is  ascribed  the  rise  of  the  family. 

In  Kirby's  Inquest  (1296)  William  de  Boiling  is  described  as  holding 
three  carucates  of  land  in  Boiling,  and  shortly  afterwards  he  was  de- 
scribed as  lord  of  the  manor,  which  his  descendants  held  for  several 
centuries,  and  two  of  them  gave  common  of  pasture  and  a  grant  of  land 
in  Boiling  to  Kirtstall  Abbey.  Part  of  this  land  is  supposed  to  be  the 
site  of  Burnett  Field.  There  is  also  evidence  of  land  in  Boiling  having 
been  granted  to  Kirkstall  Abbey  as  early  as  the  reign  of  King  John. 

In  a  copy  of  Parliamentary  Writs  we  find  the  following  entries:  'Wil- 
liam de  Boiling  certified,  pursuant  to  writ  tested  at  Clepstone,  5th  March, 
1316,  as  lord  of  the  township  of  Boiling,  in  the  county  of  York.' 


m 


GENEALOGY.  311 

'Johannes  de  Boiling,  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Array,  in  the  Wa- 
pentake of  Morley,  in  the  county  of  York.  Commission  tested  at  York 
25th  September,  1318.' 

By  the  marriage  of  Robert  Boiling  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Roger 
Thornton,  in  1349,  the  Boiling  estate  was  increased  by  the  addition  of 
the  manors  of  Thornton,  AUerton  and  Denholme.  In  the  survey  of  the 
manor  of  Bradford  taken  in  1342,  the  Boiling  family  appears  somewhat 
prominently  in  connection  with  the  barter  and  sale  of  property  in 
Bradford. 

Passing  over  a  century,  we  come  upon  an  interesting  episode  in  the 
past  history  of  Boiling,  namely,  the  attainder  for  high  treason  of  one 
Robert  Boiling  and  the  confiscation  of  his  estates.  In  the  Wars  of  the 
Roses  many  of  the  landowners  of  this  neighbourhood  were  implicated, 
and  none  more  deeply  than  Robert  Boiling  of  Boiling  Hall.  Like  many 
others  of  Yorkshire  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Lancastrians,  under 
the  banner  of  Lord  Clifford  of  Skipton  Castle,  and  was  at  the  battle  of 
Towton  on  Palm  Sunday,  March  29th,  1461.  In  that  sanguinary  encounter 
36,000  men  were  slain,  and  the  Lancastrians  were  utterly  defeated. 
The  result  was  very  disastrous  to  the  Boilings.  For  the  part  taken  in 
it  by  Robert  Boiling,  he  was  convicted  of  high  treason,  attainted  by 
order  of  Parliament,  and  deprived  of  his  estates,  the  manor  of  Boiling 
being  made  over  to  a  partisan  of  the  King  named  Thomas  Radclyfe. 
John  James,  in  his  'History  of  Bradford,'  gives  an  interesting  account  of 
this  event,  and  quotes  the  following  extract  from  a  petition  of  Robert 
Boiling  to  King  Edward  IV.  in  1475:  "Humbly  beseeching  your  Highness, 
your  true  liegeman,  Robert  Boiling,  in  the  Shire  of  York,  gentilman, 
sheweth,  that  in  the  Parliament  holden  at  Westminster,  the  4th  Novem- 
ber, in  the  first  year  of  your  Highness's  reign,  the  said  Robert  was  at- 
tainted of  high  treason,  and  that  his  lands  were  forfeited  from  the  4th 
March  preceding;  that  suppliant  was  never  against  your  Highness  in  any 
field  or  journey,  except  on  Palme  Sunday,  in  the  first  year  of  your  most 
noble  reigne,  whereto  he  was  dryven,  not  of  his  oune  proper  wille,  nor  of 
malice  towards  your  Grace,  but  oonly  by  compulsion,  and  by  the  most 
drad  proclamations  of  John,  then  Lord  Clyfford,  under  whose  daunger 
and  distresse  the  lyvelode  of  your  suppliant  lay." 

Notwithstanding  that  letters  of  pardon  were  granted  him,  Robert 
Boiling  and  his  family  of  ten  children  were  reduced  to  great  straits 
from  the  loss  of  his  estates,  but  these  he  subsequently  recovered  and 
added  much  to  them. 

Robert  Boiling  made  his  will  at  Boiling  Hall,  October,  1485,  desiring 
to  be  buried  before  the  high  altar  of  Bradford  Church,  to  which  he  left 
benefactions.  To  Amica  his  daughter  he  left  10.  The  residue  of  his 
personalty,  in  three  parts,  one  to  James,  William,  Umphrey,  Raynbron, 
and  Troilus,  his  sons;  one  for  masses  for  his  soul;  and  a  third  to  Isabel, 
his  wife.     The  testator  thus  disposes  of  his  lands: — 


312  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

'I  have  enfeofTed  Edward  Goldsborough,  one  of  the  barons  of  our  Lord 
the  Kyng,  of  his  escheaur;  Ed.  Redmanye,  one  of  the  esquiers  of  his  body: 
Ed.  Cresacre,  parson,  of  Arksey;  and  James  Boiling,  my  son,  in  the 
manors  of  Boiling,  Thornton,  and  Denholme,  and  of  all  the  haHendole 
of  my  manor  of  Haynsworth — to  myself  for  my  life.  In  suffrance,  Isabel, 
my  wyfe,  to  have  all  the  yerely  issue  of  the  halfendole  of  the  landes  at 
Mikill  Boiling,  and  to  have  her  dower  of  Haynsworth.  I  do  order  a 
gyft  to  Jamys,  William,  Umfrey,  Raynbron,  and  Troilus  Boiling,  my 
sons  of  40s.,  by  the  yere  out  of  Thornton,  Hethlee,  and  Sowden;  after 
their  decease  to  remayne  to  Trystram  Boiling,  my  son  and  heir,  and  the 
heires  males  of  his  bodie.' 

Of  two  of  the  sons  of  Robert  Boiling— Tristram  and  Raynbron — inter- 
esting evidences  exist.  Raynbron,  the  3^ounger  brother,  was  bailiff  of 
the  manorial  property  at  Bradford  vested  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster, 
and  held  a  lease  of  the  manorial  mills,  &c,  which  in  the  'Rolls  Chron- 
icles' is  set  forth  in  the  following  terms: — "1448,  8  March. — Lease  to 
farm  by  the  advice  of  the  Coimcil  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  for  7  years 
from  Michaelmas  last  past  before  date  of  present  letters,  to  Raynbron 
Boleling,  yeoman  of  the  King's  Crown,  of  the  cloth  fulling  and  corn  mill, 
toll,  stallage,  and  agistment  of  cattle  in  Bradford  Bank,  with  the  per- 
quisites and  shops  beneath  the  Halls  of  Pleas  of  the  town  and  Lordship  of 
Bradford,  Co.  York,  at  an  annual  rent  of  ixl.  viijd." 

In  making  the  most  of  his  bailiwick,  Raynbron  incurred  considerable 
odium  among  the  inhabitants  of  Bradford,  and  a  suit  was  instituted  in 
the  Duchy  Court  for  extortion  and  wrongdoing,  of  which  the  following 
is  the  substance,  extracted  from  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  Pleadings  in 
the  Record  Office: — 

'18,  Hen.  VII. — Richard  Tempest  and  others,  freeholders  and  King's 
tenants  of  Bradford  township,  and  plaintiffs.  Raynbron  Boiling,  the 
King's  bailiff,  and  others  defendants.  Deputed  titles  to  lands,  tolls  of 
markets,  partiality  of  kin,  &c. 

Contra,  Pleading — 

"Raynbron  Boiling,  bailiff  of  Bradford,  and  Godfrey  Foljambe,  Feo- 
dary  of  Tickill  Honor,  plaintiffs.  Rich.  Tempest,  defendant,  and 
others. 

To  the  Right  Worshipful  Chancellor  Duchy  of  Lancaster. 

"We,  Richard  Tempest  and  Robert  Leventhorp,  esquires;  Thos. 
Thornton,  Wm.  Rookes,  John  Rookes,  Thos.  Ellys,  John  Rawson,  John 
Feld,  James  Webster,  Thomas  Bower,  Wm.  Bancke,  Robt.  Ledgard, 
Richd.  Bancke,  and  others,  freeholders  and  the  King's  tenants  of  the 
township  of  Bradford;  John  Threapland,  John  Ellingsworth,  Rich. 
Hollins,  John  Whitacre,  Thos.  Aldersley,  &c.,  freeholders  and  King's 
tenants  of  AUerton;  John  Wilkinson,  Thos.   Roper,  Wm.  Byrkenshaw 


GENEALOGY.  313 

&c.,  tenants  and  freeholders  of  Thornton;  Robt.  Midgley,  William 
Mortymer,  of  Clayton;  Richard  Broadly,  Thos.  Stead,  of  Bowling; 
Christopher  Sharp,  James  Sharp,  Christopher  Thornton,  &c.,  of  Horton; 
Joseph  Thornton,  Roger  Thornton,  &c.,  of  Heaton;  William  Northrop, 
Laurence  Ellynworth,  William  Jowett,  Thos.  Mortymer,  Richard  Rodes, 
&c.,  of  Manningham,  deposed  that  whereas  three  f aires  have  been  held 
and  kept  within  the  lordship  which  were  a  great  resort  of  merchants, 
chapmen,  and  others  of  the  King's  lieges  of  divers  parts  for  the  purpose 
of  selling  their  wares  to  the  great  weal  of  the  King's  tenants  of  the  said 
lordship  and  to  the  country  adjoining.  That  Raynbron  Boiling,  the 
bailiff  of  the  said  lordship,  wrongfully,  by  him  and  his  deputies,  taking 
excessive  and  imreasonable  tolls  of  your  said  orators  and  others  th'fe 
King's  tenants  and  others  the  King's  lieges  resorting  to  the  said  faires, 
the  said  merchants  and  chapmen  have  withdrawn  themselves  and  their 
merchandise  from  the  said  faires,  and  that  thereby  the  said  faires  are 
greatly  decreased,  to  the  great  hurt  of  all  the  King's  tenants  and  ter- 
mers and  freeholders  of  the  said  lordship;  and  also  that  the  said  Rayn- 
bron Boiling,  by  reason  of  levying  excessive  mulcture  at  the  King's 
mylnes  to  the  great  hurt  of  your  orators  and  taking  the  cattel  of  your 
orators  and  keeping  them  in  secret  places,  so  that  your  said  orators 
cannot  gain  knowledge  of  them,  and  after  keeping  them  a  certain  time 
claiming  the  said  cattel  as  waifs  and  strays  to  his  own  uses;  that  in  the 
16th  year  of  Hen.  VII.  he  caused  certain  women  to  shear  twenty  sheep 
of  the  King's  tenants  so  that  they  were  not  known  again  by  their  owners; 
that  he  will  not  suffer  any  sheep  of  your  orators  to  be  imclipped  after 
Whit-Sunday,  but  if  there  are  the  said  bailiff  will  take  them  and  cause 
them  to  be  clipped,  claiming  and  taking  the  wool  to  his  own  uses  and  to 
the  great  hurt  of  the  King's  tenants;  that  on  the  5th  of  June,  in  the  17 
of  Hen.  VII.  he  took  from  Ellen,  late  wife  of  Tristram  Boiling,  five  ewes; 
from  Elizabeth  Bristowe,  two  kye;  and  from  William  Wright  one  cow; 
that  one  William  Gordon,  a  Scotch  chapman,  who  was  coming  from  Hal- 
ifax with  three  packs  of  wool,  was  waylaid  by  the  said  bailiffs  upon  Man- 
ningham Moor,  because  the  said  chapman  ought  to  have  come  through 
Bradford  and  paid  toll,  and  cast  him  down  and  beat  him,  and  caused 
him  to  pay  6s.  8d.  and  above  in  money.' 

Raynbron's  answer,  which  is  filed  in  the  Duchy  records,  states: — 'That 
there  were  two  very  great  faires  every  year  at  Bradford,  on  the  day  of 
the  Feast  of  St.  Andrew,  and  the  day  of  St.  Peter  in  Cathedra,  three 
days  every  fair — that  he  had  to  attend  upon  the  King's  daughter,  the 
Queen  of  Scots,  into  Scotland,  and  in  his  absence  Sir  Richard  Tempest 
went  into  the  Tolbooth  of  Bradford  and  threatened  his  servants  (the 
servants  of  the  King's  bailiff)  if  they  took  toll.  That  the  inhabitants 
of  Clayton,  at  the  instigation  of  Sir  Richard  Tempest,  waylaid  John 
Aldworth,  whom  the  said  bailiff  had  sent  to  gather  toll,  and  beat  him 
unmercifully.  So  that  he  had  been  little  able  to  do  any  work  since; 
that  the  said  Tempest  had  ordered  all  his  servants  and  retainers,  and 


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had  encouraged  all  others,  to  beat  down  the  bailiff's  servants  when  they 
gathered  toll,  and  declared  that  no  man  should  bear  rule  in  Bradford 
but  himself.' 

This  interesting  episode  is  illustrative  of  the  exactions  resorted  to 
by  the  emissaries  of  King  Henry  VII.,  who  made  use  of  them  to  extort 
money  and  to  heap  up  wealth  for  his  own  ends,  which  was  the  ruling 
object  of  his  existence. 

(To  be  Continued) 


THE  POINDEXTER  FAMILY 

(Continued) 


Several  accounts  which  are  expected  from  various  members  of  the  fam- 
ily have  not  yet  been  received;  but  will  be  printed  later. 

In  the  "List  of  Revolutionary  Soldiers"  published  by  the  Virginia 
State  Library  in  1912,  the  following  Poindexters  appear:  Gabriel  Poin- 
dexter,  Jacob  Poindexter,  John  Poindexter,  Jonathan  Poindexter,  Joseph 
Poindexter  (Captain  Bedford  Co.  Militia),  Levil  (Lovel)  Poindexter, 
and  Richard  G.  Poindexter. 


James  Poindexter,  who  was  bom  in  Virginia  in  1765,  married  May 
Thompson,  of  Virginia,  in  1801.  Can  any  one  give  the  name  of  his  father  ? 
James  Poindexter,  has  descendants  in  California. 


Miscellaneous  Notes. 

Deed,  dated  March  7,  1733,  and  recorded  in  Prince  William  County, 
from  Thomas  Poindexter,  house-carpenter,  of  Hanover  County,  Convey- 
ing land  in  Prince  William  County,  which  had  been  bequeathed  to  him 
by  Rev.  James  Brechin,  late  of  Westmoreland  County,  by  his  will  dated 
August  19,  1721. 

Will  of  Elizabeth  Johnson,  dated  July  6,  1812,  and  proved  in  Louisa  Co. 
Sept.  14,  1812,  names  her  grandchildren  Lucy,  Betty  and  Walles  S.  Poin- 
dexter (their  mother  was  dead)  and  her  son-in-law  John  Poindexter. 

Deed,  Goochland  County,  May  1745,  from  Jolin  Coles,  of  Henrico 
Coimty  to  Jacob  Poindexter,  of  James  City  County. 

Deed,  Goochland  County,  Feb.  1760,  from  Thomas  Poindexter,  of 
Goochland,  to  Robert  Jordan  of  same  coimty. 

Will  of  Benjamin  Poindexter,  of  Cumberland  County,  dated  Dec.  28, 
1765,  and  proved  June,  1766,  gives  his  friends  Littleberry  Mosby  and 
Joseph  Carrington  his  whole  estate,  including  what  he  was  to  have  from 
his  wife  Sarah  as  her  legacy. 

Deed,  1750,  from  Philip  Poindexter,  of  Cumberland  County,  to  George 
Nicholas  conveying  all  of  the  land  in  Cumberland  where  said  Poindexter 
lived. 

(To  be  Continued) 


GENEALOGY.  315 

THE  TURNER  FAMILY  OF  KING  GEORGE  COUNTY,  &c. 

(Continued) 


On  p.  108  of  the  January  1913  Magazine,  George*  Turner  should  be 
9  instead  of  5  and  Richard*  Turner  should  be  10  instead  of  6.  By  an 
accident  the  numbers  of  the  children  of  Col.  Thomas  Turner  were  con- 
fused. The  fact  that  two  of  his  daughters  are  numbered  8  and  9  will 
cause  no  confusion  as  their  names  do  not  appear  again. 

9.  George*  Turner  of  "Nanzatico"  married  Caroline  Pratt. 
Issue:   33.    John^,  died  unmarried,  34.  George^,   died  unmarried:  35. 

Thomas^,  died  unmarried,  36.  Carolinus^  (of  whom  later). 

10.  Richard*  Turner,  of  "Walsingham,"  King  George  Covmty,  mar- 
ried Alice  Fitzhugh  Pratt  (sister  of  his  brother's  wife). 

Issue:  37.  Albert^,  married  Elizabeth  Cary.  Nelson,  of  Maryland  (and 
had  one  son  Albert",  who  never  married,  and  one  daughter  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Judge  Nathaniel  B.  Meade  of  Alexandria) ;  38.  Richard  H.^, 
(of  whom  later);  39.  Virginia  Anne,  married  Charles  Tayloe  of  "Oaken- 
brow,"  King  George  Coimty  (an  estate  once  the  property  of  Thomas  Tur- 
ner, of  "Kinloch;"  but  sold  to  one  of  the  Tayloe  family);  40.  Caroline, 
married  Drury  Fitzhugh,  of  "Navarino,"  King  George  County;  41.  Jane 
Columbia,  married  Lt.  William  Taylor  Smith,  U.  S.  N.,  of  "Canning," 
King  George  County,  (a  fine  estate  of  4000  acres);  42.  George^,  of  Wal- 
singham, married  in  1870  Jane  Charlotte  Washington  Fitzhugh,  of  "Mill- 
bank,"  King  George  County;  43.  Mary  Louise  married  her  first  cousin, 
Dr.  John  M.  Robb,  (whose  mother  was  Maria  Pratt)  and  had  a  number 
of  children;  44.  Thomas^,  never  married. 

11.  Thomas  B^.  Turner  of  Jefferson  Cotmty,  married  first  Augusta 
Brockenbrough  (who  died  without  issue),  and  secondly  in  1827,  at  "White 
Hall,"  King  George  County,  Fenton,  daughter  of  Gustavus  B.  Wallace, 
and  thirdly  Lucy  Buckner.  Issue:  45.  Thomas",  C.  S.  A.,  killed  in  battle 
46.  Frances,  married Dade;  47.  daughter  married Morton. 

14.  William  Fauntleroy^  Turner,  of  Jefferson  County,  member  of 
the  House  of  Delegates,  1843,  1844,  1845.  He  married  first  in  1845,  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Beime,  of  Monroe  County;  and  secondly,  Sydney 
Patterson,  of  Baltimore  (a  niece  of  Madame  Jerome  Bonaparte). 

Issue:  (1st  m.)  48.  Ellen  Beime,  married  John  S.  Saunders  of  Norfolk, 
Lieutenant  Colonel  C.  S.  A.,  later  of  Baltimore;  (2nd  m.)  Daughter, 
married  Donald  Swann,  of  Baltimore. 

24.  Shirley  Carter^  Turner,  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  bom  at  "Shirley" 
Feb.  21st,  1806,  married  Sarah  Bascombe.  Issue:  50.  Selina;  51.  Caro- 
line; 52.  Willaim8;53.  Shirley";  54.  Lavinia. 

25.  Thomas  Turner^,  bom  at  "Marengo,"  Dec.  23rd,  1807,  appointed 
Midshipman  U.S.  N.,  1825,  Lieutenant  1835,  Commander  1855,  Captain 
July  1862,  Commodore  December  1862,  Rear  Admiral  1868.     During  his 


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long  service  in  the  navy  he  displayed  much  skill  and  gallantry.  He  mar- 
ried Fanny  Palmer  and  died  at  Glen  Mills,  Pa.,  March  24th,  1888.  There 
is  a  notice  of  him  in  Appleton's  Cyclopedia  of  American  Biography. 

Issue:  55.  Angela,  married  George  W.  Toland;  56.  Julia,  married  Osgood 
Wellsh;  57.  Edward  Palmer  2nd  lieutenant  10th  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  Dec. 
18,  1871,  resigned  June  25,  1878;  married  his  cousin  Mary,  daughter  of 
Edward  C.  Turner,  and  died  Jan.  13,  1901,  leaving  two  daughters;  58. 
Jessie,  married  Henry  Biddle  of  Philadelphia;  59.  William,  Officer  U.  S. 
Marine  Corps,  married (and  had  issue) ;  60.  Minnie,  died  in  childhood. 

26.  William  FiTZHUGH^  Turner,  bom  at  "Eastern  View,"  Sept.  28, 
1809,  married  Jane  Hall  of  Baltimore.  Issue:  61.  Marian,  married  William 
Cerere;  62.  Thomas 8,  died  without  issue;  63.  Lydia,  married  William 
Blanchard;  64.  Eliza;  65.  William  H.e  killed  in  battle  1862;  66.  Sophia 
C;  67.  Henry  J. «;  68.  Fitzhughe;  69.  Horatio  W.S;  70.  Virginia. 

(To  be  Continued) 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  317 


HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  NOTES  AND 
QUERIES 


Capt.  Roger  Jones 

In  Bruce's  Institutional  History  of  Virginia  Capt.  Roger  Jones  is  men- 
tioned in  a  connection  which  I  think  does  him  great  injustice.  So  far 
as  anything  to  the  contrary  appears,  the  character  of  Capt.  Roger  Jones 
was  above  reproach,  and  there  was  never  a  breath  of  suspicion  against 
him,  except  for  certain  alleged  "reports"  recited  in  a  letter  of  July  7, 
1692,  from  Lieut-Gov.  Francis  Nicholson  and  seven  members  of  his  coian- 
cil  to  the  Lords  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  ten  years  after  the  things  are 
alleged  to  have  occurred,  in  which  the  evident  purpose  is  to  impair  Capt. 
Roger  Jones'  influence  with  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  for  the  Colony 
in  London.  The  letter  has  every  earmark  of  having  been  dictated  by 
the  vindictive  and  dominating  spirit  of  Nicholson  and  signed  by  an  in- 
timidated or  too  easy  acquiescing  coimcil.  In  order  to  correctly  estimate 
a  paper  of  this  character  it  is  necessary,  first  and  above  all  things,  to 
consider  the  age  in  which  it  was  produced.  We  know  that  this  was  an 
age  of  intense  feeling,  of  passionate  acting,  of  incontinent  and  undiscrimi- 
nating  personal  abuse,  and  governors  and  councillors,  though  they  be  men 
of  ever  so  great  prominence,  are  nevertheless  not  exempt  from  the  frail- 
ties peculiar  to  men  of  the  period  in  which  they  live.  The  letter  was 
signed  by  seven  members  of  the  council  who  were  all  probably,  like 
Edmund  Jennings,  partisans  of  the  governor.  The  point  we  are  making 
is  well  stated  by  the  editor  of  this  magazine  (Vol.  VII.,  page  153),  viz.: 

"Nicholson  was  utterly  unscrupulous  in  regard  to  the  charges  he  made 
— indeed  no  great  importance  should  be  attached  to  any  defamation  of 
that  period.  A  characteristic  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  cen- 
turies, which  all  students  of  the  time  are  aware  of,  is  the  curious  absence 
of  any  sense  of  responsibility  or  regard  for  the  truth,  when  an  enemy  was 
to  be  attacked.  Cases  occur  repeatedly  in  the  court  records  of  the  period, 
not  only  in  the  colonies  but  in  England,  where  a  man  would  make  most 
scurrilous  charges,  and,  when  brought  to  trial,  promptly  and  publicly 
confess  that  all  of  his  statements  were  false." 

For  a  lengthy  account  of  the  methods  employed  by  Nicholson  to  blast 
the  reputation  of  those  who  by  any  chance  incurred  his  displeasure,  see 
the  petition  (Vol.  III.,  pp.  173-182  of  this  Mag.)  which  resulted  in  his 


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removal,  and  was  presented  against  him  in  1704  by  Philip  Ludwell,  John 
Lightfoot,  Matthew  Page,  Benj.  Harrison,  Robert  Carter  and  James 
Blair,  all  members  of  the  council.  Philip  Ludwell  and  Roger  Jones  were 
close  friends;  in  the  latter 's  will  this  bequest  appears:  "I  give  to  my  ten 
friends  hereinafter  named  the  simie  of  twenty  shillings  apiece  to  buy  each 
of  them  a  ring,  that  is  to  say  Sr.  Richard  Haddock,  Coll.  Philip  Ludwell, 
etc." 

The  British  Public  Records  Office  shows  that  the  following  action  was 
taken  on  the  governor's  letter: 

"Oct.  11.  2545.  Journal  of  Lords  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  *  *  * 
Captain  Roger  Jones  attended,  and  explaining  that  he  intended  nothing 
against  the  Government  of  Virginia,  was  dismissed."  So,  the  fiasco 
ended. 

The  only  exhibit  referred  to  in  the  letter,  "No.  1979,"  is  a  letter  from 
Roger  Jones  to  Peter  Perry,  his  agent  in  Virginia,  and  reads  as  follows: 

"If  the  Government  of  Virginia  insist  on  their  duty  on  skins,  and 
nothing  is  done  on  our  behalf  by  the  English  Government,  order  all  our 
skins  to  be  packed  in  hogsheads  and  keep  them  till  further  orders. 
The  Commissioners  of  Customs  have  drawn  up  a  very  favorable  report, 
so  that  we  can  draw  out  our  goods.  Besides  they  have  decided  that  no 
law  is  in  force  in  the  Colony  for  more  than  a  year  without  the  Royal 
Assent  being  then  known,  so  that  presumably  all  goods  shipped  after 
the  expiration  of  a  year  from  the  date  of  the  law  will  be  exempt.'  ' 


In  the  governor's  letter  one  of  the  complaints  against  Roger  Jones  is 
that  of  "refusing  to  serve  in  any  office, "  which  raises  the  question  why 
they  would  offer  him  other  offices  if  he  had  been  so  imfaithful  in  the  only 
office  he  had  held.  The  only  possible  explanation  is  their  fear  that  in  his 
efforts  to  protect  his  property,  Roger  Jones  either  had,  or  would  induce 
the  Commissioners  of  Customs  to  declare  invalid  an  act  designed  to  sup- 
ply the  governor  and  council  with  revenue,  and  that  all  the  other  things 
were  lugged  in  through  spite  and  in  the  hope  of  injuring  his  influence  with 
the  Commissioners. 

While  the  governor's  letter  alleges  but  one  instance  in  which  Capt. 
Jones  was  "reported"  to  have  struck  the  King's  colors  to  a  pirate.  Dr. 
Bruce  goes  even  the  doughty  old  Virginia  governor  "several  better," 
and  says,  in  all  seriousness:  "His  device,  it  appears,  was  to  strike  his 
colors  to  the  vessels  of  pirates,  his  motive  in  doing  so  which  they  soon 
came  to  understand;  and  it  was  then  their  habit  to  dismiss  him  with  a 
great  quantity  of  French  wines  and  other  costly  goods."  That  is,  the 
pirates  "got  the  habit"!  All  this  is  supposed  to  have  occurred  within  a 
period  of  probably  not  exceeding  six  months,  for  Roger  Jones'  commission 
las  captain  of  the  sloop  is  dated  May  28,  1683,  and  it  is  not  probable  that 
he  would  sail  until  legally  protected  by  a  commission,  and  the  sloop  was 
discharged  November  29th  following. 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  319 

The  letter  says  that  for  his  various  derelictions  Lord  Culpeper 
"tried  to  bring  him  to  account."  Now  Roger  Jones  resided  at  Green 
Spring  with  Lord  Culpeper,  during  his  entire  residence  in  the  colony, 
from  May,  1680,  to  May,  1685,  when  he  returned  to  London,  where  he  re- 
sided until  the  day  of  his  death.  In  the  York  County  records  we  find  this 
entry,  four  months  before  he  left  the  colony:  "These  are  to  certifie  whom 
it  may  conceme  Y.  Capt.  Roger  Jones  &  Mr.  XXX  Chisley  intend  God 
willing  for  Old  England  by  the  first  Ships."  There  was  therefore  no 
conceivable  reason  why  the  entire  machinery  of  the  law  should  not  have 
been  put  in  operation  against  him  at  any  moment.  If  the  statement  is 
true,  it  can  only  mean  that  Lord  Culpeper  inquired  into  the  reports  and 
failed  to  find  any  evidence  to  sustain  them. 

There  is  reason  to  believe  that  Capt.  Roger  Jones  lived  in  the  colony, 
as  he  lived  in  London  both  before  and  after  he  visited  the  colony,  in  such 
state  as  reasonably  became  a  gentleman  of  rank  at  the  time.  He  had 
his  coach  or  chariot  on  which  were  emblazoned  his  coat  of  arms  quarter- 
ing his  mother's  and  impaling  his  wife's  arms.  His  coat  of  arms  is  re- 
cognized as  that  of  an  ancient  Welsh  family  named  Ap  John,  which  was 
early  seated  in  Nottinghamshire,  where  Roger  Jones  was  married  and 
buried,  where  they  owned  valuable  estates,  and  from  which  family  the 
College  of  Arms  think  he  was  descended.  All  the  indicarions  are  that  he 
was  possessed  of  a  competent  estate  before  he  came  to  Virginia,  and  there 
is  nothing  to  indicate  that  it  was  enhanced  in  any  extraordinary  manner 
during  his  residence  in  the  colony. 

Among  the  published  letters  of  the  elder  Wm.  Fitzhugh  are  several  to 
Roger  Jones.  One,  dated  Jan.  8,  1682-3,  addressed  to  him  at  Green 
Springs,  requests  his  assistance  in  procuring  for  Fitzhugh's  friend  the 
office  of  sheriff  of  his  coimty.  In  another  letter,  after  his  return  to  Lon- 
don, Fitzhugh  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  to  Roger  Jones  for  the  fact 
that  he  and  George  Brent  had  been  deputed  to  look  after  the  Lord  Pro- 
prietor's rents  in  Virginia.  In  another  letter  he  desires  Roger  Jones  to 
"negotiate"  for  the  office  of  sheriff  "in  fee  or  at  least  for  life."  So,  it 
appears  that  Capt.  Roger  Jones  was  a  man  of  such  standing  and  influence 
in  Government  circles  as  to  be  selected  by  Wm.  Fitzhugh  as  one  most 
likely  to  secure  for  him  an  appointment  to  an  important  office,  and  his 
influence  with  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  might  very  well  have  been 
feared  by  a  man  like  Nicholson,  and  might  very  well  have  been  the 
motive  for  a  vicious  attack  on  him  in  1692. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  insist,  for  the  purpose  of  this  contention,  that 
there  may  not  have  been  reports  concerning  Roger  Jones  circulated  by 
some  evil  disposed  person — what  prominent  man  has  escaped  them! — 
which  were  seized  upon  by  the  governor  and  council  as  a  basis  for  their 
representations;  but  it  is  contended  that  no  evidence  tending  to  prove  the 
truth  of  any  report  was  offered  or  referred  to  by  them  or  has  since  been 
found,  and  that  a  man  like  Roger  Jones  should  be  deemed  to  be  innocent 


320  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

even  of  suspicion  until  some  evidence  is  forthcoming  to  call  for  a  suspi- 
cion. In  the  petition  against  Gov.  Nicholson  a  request  is  made  for  a 
commission  to  take  proof  of  its  statements,  while  in  the  letter  against 
Roger  Jones  the  statements  are  not  of  matters  claimed  to  be  within  the 
personal  cognizance  of  the  signers — indeed  Nicholson  was  not  at  the  time 
a  resident  of  the  colony — and  it  is  not  pretended  that  there  was  any  ev- 
idence to  be  had  of  the  truth  of  the  "reports."  Dr.  Bruce  is  asking  the 
readers  of  his  history  to  believe,  after  more  than  two  centuries  have  in- 
tervened, that  of  which  the  governor  and  his  coimcil  tacitly  admitted 
there  was  no  evidence  on  which  to  found  a  belief,  an  admissibn  of  which 
appears  to  have  been  confirmed  by  an  investigation  conducted  by  Lord 
Culpeper  immediately  after  the  things  are  said  to  have  occurred. 

Conceding  everything  that  can  be  said  for  Francis  Nicholson  and  the 
men  who  composed  his  counciil,  that  he  made  an  excellent  governor,  that 
he  was  a  man  of  such  prominence  and  probity  of  character  as  to  have  been 
twice  appointed  royal  governor  of  Virginia,  which  is  more  than  can  be 
said  of  any  of  the  others  who  signed  the  paper  against  Roger  Jones,  and, 
in  view  of  the  petition  presented  against  Gov.  Nicholson  by  Philip  Lud- 
well  and  other  members  of  the  council,  men  of  as  great  prominence  and 
probity  of  character  as  any  in  the  colony,  it  merely  serves  the  more  to 
emphasize  my  main  contention  that  however  distinguished  and  above 
reproach  in  other  respects  men  of  the  period  may  have  been,  their  ^ate- 
ments  concerning  the  character  of  those  whom  they  were  publicly  at- 
tacking are  not  to  be  trusted.  Dr.  Bruce  is  at  liberty  to  chose  either  horn 
of  the  dilemma.  If  he  will  accept  as  true  the  hear-say  statements  of 
"reports"  concerning  the  conduct  of  Capt.  Roger  Jones,  because  of  the 
prominence  and  character  of  the  men  who  signed  the  governor's  letter, 
he  must  likewise  accept  as  true  the  statements  of  Philip  Ludwell  and 
others  of  equal  prominence  and  character,  as  to  matters  of  which  they 
claimed  to  be  personally  cognizant  and  ready  to  prove,  viz.,  that,  owing 
to  a  peculiar  frailty  of  men  of  the  period,  with  which  students  of  history 
are  abimdantly  familiar,  the  methods  resorted  to  by  men  of  such  ex- 
cellent character  as  Gov.  Francis  Nicholson  and  those  who  measured  up 
to  the  standard  of  his  approval,  to  blast  the  reputation  of  any  one  who 
happened  to  incur  their  displeasure,  were  of  the  basest,  most  shameless 
and  most  unscrupulous  nature,  which  leaves  Dr.  Bruce  without  a  sem- 
blance of  justification  for  the  attitude  he  has  assumed  toward  Roger 
Jones. 

L.  H.  Jones. 


Edmund  Pendleton 

Mr.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby  in  "The  Virginia  Convention  of  1776,"  gives 
Edmund  Pendleton's  public  career  as  Burgess,  Member  of  Convention, 
Speaker  of  House  of  Delegates  and  Judge.     He  states  that  the  dates,  and 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES.  321 

some  of  the  facts  in  his  sketch  are  taken  from  a  manuscript  account  of 
himself,  written  by  Pendleton  in  his  latter  days.  Mr.  Grigsby  adds,  that 
this  may  be  seen  in  the  archives  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society. 

But  it  has  gone  astray,  and  is  not  there  now.  Luckily,  however,  it  is 
also  printed  in  the  Norfolk,  Virginia,  Beacon,  of  October  3,  1834.  Camp- 
bell's History  of  Virginia,  with  Mr.  Grigsby,  evidently  follows  this  ac- 
count for  dates,  and  gives  Pendleton's  birth  as  in  the  year  1721;  also  the 
fact  that  he  was  bound  as  an  apprentice  to  Colonel  Benjamin  Robinson, 
of  Caroline  County,  Virginia,  while  in  his  fourteenth  year. 

I  have  an  entry  from  the  Order  Book  for  Caroline  County,  Virginia, 
which  throws  some  additional  light  upon  the  obscure  early  history  of 
this  remarkable  Virginian.  From  this  his  father's  name  will  be  learned. 
If  Pendleton  was,  as  stated  by  himself,  in  his  fourteenth  year  when  bound 
as  an  apprentice,  he  must  have  been  bom  in  1720,  instead  of  1721,  or 
was  a  year  older  at  that  time,  than  he  imagined  himself.  The  indenture 
is  also  interesting  as  showing  that  Pendleton  was  bovind  to  learn  "all 
things  belonging  to  a  Clerks  office." 

J.  H.  Whitty. 
"Virginia: 

At  a  Court  held  for  Caroline  County  on  Friday  the  14th  day  March , 
1734. 
Present. 

William  Woodford  Thos.  Catlett  \ 

John  Martin  Wm.  Taliaferro  r^^'  J"^^''^^^- 

Its  ordered  and  considered  of  the  Court  that  Edmund  Pendleton,  son 
of  Henry  Pendleton  Dec'ed,  be  bound  (and  is  hereby  boimd),  unto  Benj 
Robinson,  Clerk  of  this  Court,  to  serve  him  the  full  end,  and  term  of  six 
years  and  six  months  as  an  apprentice,  to  be  brought  up  in  the  said  office, 
which  time  the  said  apprentice  his  master  faithfully  shall  serve,  accord- 
ing to  the  usage  and  custom  of  apprentices.  In  consideration  whereof 
the  said  Benjamin  Robinson  doth  agree,  that  he  will  use  the  utmost  of 
his  endeavors  to  instruct  his  said  apprentice  in  all  things  belonging  to 
a  clerks  office,  and  that  he  will  provide  for  him  sufficient  meat,  drink, 
apparill,  &c  fitting  for  an  apprentice  during  y's  s'd  time. 

From  the  records  of  the  Order  Book. 
A  Copy. 

Teste.     Thomas  W.  Valentine,  Deputy  Clerk." 


Nelson— Teac  kle 

Hand  holding  fleur-de-lys 
Palman  qui  Meruit  Ferati. 

Thomas  Nelson  or  Neylson  of  York  Merchant  of  the  Staple.     Lord 
Mayor  of  York  1454-14G5.     His  will  proved  March  22,  1184-5.     One  of 


322  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

the  Lord  Mayors  direct  decendants  by  Joan  his  wife  was  William  of 
Belfast  Co.  York.     Married  Elinor  Oglethorpe  of  that  place. 

Their  son  William  was  of  Bedale  County,  York.  His  son  Robert 
Nelson  of  Barnard's  Inn  London  was  buried  at  St.  Dtmstans  in  the  West, 

December   21,    1641.     Will   proved    1642.     He   married   Helen  . 

Their  son  Robert  admitted  to  Grey's  Inn  March  11,  1630.  Will  proved 
August  4,  1698.  M.  Mary  the  daughter  of  St.  John  Temple,  Staunton 
Bury,  Kent  &  Sister  of  Sir  Thomas  Temple,  Bart.  Gov.  of  Nova  Scotia. 
Their  only  daughter,  Margaret,  married  Rev.  Thomas  Teackle. 

Rev.  Thos.  Teackle Margaret  Nelson 

John    Teackle  \  c  tt    i, 

d,  > Susanna  Upshur 

Burgess  J 

Thomas  Teackle ..Eliz.  Custis 

Thomas  Teackle  1735-1784   ] 

Rev.  Soldier,  brother  of        j Elizabeth     Upshur 

Severn  1756  J 

John  Teackle Ann  Stockley  Upshur 

Lavinia  Teackle   Wm.  Graham  of  Ireland 

Wm.    Hamilton    Graham Isabella    Brown 

Elizabeth  Graham Wm.  H.  Whitridge 

A  very  interesting  old  wallet  was  found  in  the  papers  of  the  late  Severn 
Teackle  Waters  decendant  of  Severn  son  of  Thos^  containing  the  births 
&  deaths  of  his  children  in  Thos.  (1711-1769)  handwriting.  It  is  now 
owned  by  a  great-grand-daughter,  Mrs.  Giflfin  of  Baltimore,  also  a  very 
interesting  record  of  Severn  Teackle's  Revolutionary  record. 

If  you  so  desire  I  know  she  would  send  you  copies. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  W.,  Baltimore. 


Two  Students  from  Virginia  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh;  with 

a  note  regarding  early  botanical  dissertations  by  Virginians  at  the 

University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Dr.  James  Jones  of  Nottoway  County,  member  of  the  Virginia  Council 
of  State  and  member  of  Congress,  [1819-1823],  was  a  graduate,  in  med- 
icine, of  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  1796.  See  his  Disputatio  Medica 
Granguralis  de  Tetano,  Edinburgh,  1796  [Library  of  Hampden  Sidney 
College].  This  book  of  50  pages  is  dedicated  to  Dr.  George  Brown  of 
Baltimore,  and  Dr.  John  Patterson  of  Virginia.  Dr.  Jones  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Hampden  Sidney  College,  1791. 

Dr.  David  Floumoy  of  Prince  Edward  County,  (probably  a  son  of 
Thomas  Floumoy,  See  Magazine  II,  200),  was  a  student  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Edinburgh  before  1800,  as  appears  from  a  note  book  kept  by  him. 
This  book  came  into  the  possession  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  John  Peter 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  323 

Mettauer  of  Prince  Edward  County,  and  passed  from  his  library  to  that 
of  the  late  Dr.  J.  D.  Eggleston,  whose  son,  the  Hon.  J.  D.  Eggleston, 
formerly  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  now  owns  the  book,  as 
well  as  very  many  other  valuable  books  from  the  library  of  Dr.  Mettauer. 

In  this  connection,  it  is  of  interest  to  recall  the  names  of  certain  Vir- 
ginians who  about  1800  submitted  dissertations  on  botanical  subjects  for 
the  doctor's  degree  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  under  the  elder 
Barton.  Dr.  Miller  printed  a  list  of  such  dissertations  in  his  Retro- 
spect OF  THE  Eighteenth  Century,  New  York,  1803,  I,  p.  511,  on 
the  Kalmia  Latifolia  and  Angustifolia,  by  George  Thomas  of  Vir- 
ginia; on  the  Prunus  Virginiana,  by  Charles  Morris  of  Virginia;  on  the 
Magnolia  Glauca,  by  Thomas  D.  Price  of  Virginia;  on  the  Bignonia 
Catalpa,  by  Robert  Holmes  of  Virginia;  on  the  Polygala  Senega, 
['About  1740,  Dr.  Tennant  of  Virginia  published  a  small  work  on  the 
Pleurisy,  in  which  he  brought  into  view  the  virtues  of  Seneka  Snake  root, 
before  unknown' — Miller,  I,  318.],  by  Thomas  Massie  of  Virginia;  on 
the  Cornus  Florida,  and  Sericea,  and  the  Cinchona  Officinalis,  by 
John  M.  Walker  of  Virginia. 

Dr.  Miller's  list  contains  twelve  items  only,  the  authors  representing 
the  States  of  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Maryland,  Virginia,  and  the 
'Kingdom  of  Ireland' .  Virginians  therefore  contributed  half  the  number. 
It  may  be  remarked  that  the  "Virginia  Doctors"  before  1825  in  Phila- 
delphia were  often,  if  studious,  also  uproarious. 

Of  his  list,  Dr.  Miller  observes,  "The  authors  of  all  the  dissertations 
above-mentioned,  reside  to  the  South  of  New  York,  excepting  the  stu- 
dent from  Ireland."  The  University  of  Pennsylvania  naturally  drew 
its  patronage  from  the  region  south  of  New  York,  but  Dr.  Miller,  in 
another  part  of  his  work  (I,  317)  brings  out  the  fact  that  "during  the 
greater  part  of  the  century  tmder  review,  and  especially  the  earlier 
periods  of  it,  medical  science  was  cultivated  with  most  success  in  the 
Middle  and  Southern  States.*)  A  taste  for  researches  in  natural  his- 
tory also  appeared,  particularly  the  States  of  South  Carolina,  Virginia, 
Pennsylvania  and  New  York,  long  before  a  similar  taste  was  formed  to 
the  Eastward." 

Alfred  J.  Morrison. 

* — Dr.  Miller  (Professor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Prince- 
ton), quotes  a  letter  (I,  491)  to  him  from  Bishop  Madison,  President  of 
William  and  Mary— "Dr.  McClurg,  of  our  City  (Williamsburg),  was 
educated  at  this  college.  After  completing  the  usual  course  here,  he 
studied  physic  at  Edinburgh;  was  a  favorite  pupil  of  the  celebrated 
Black;  and  gained  much  applause  by  his  treatise  De  Calore.  Indeed,  I 
have  lately  seen  in  the  Annals  de  Chimic,  I  think,  for  the  year  1800,  the 
confession  that  Dr.  McClurg  first  started  the  idea  concerning  heat, 
which  the  French  philosophers  have  since  pursued  with  so  much  sue- 


324  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Lord  Effingham 

1686  July  5  London  Gazette  p.  22 

London,  June  30.  This  day  came  into  the  River  the  Ship  Barnaby 
from  Virginia,  having  on  Board  the  Body  of  the  Right  Honourable  the 
Lady  Howard  of  Eflfingham,  who  died  in  Virginia;  And  of  her  eldest 
Daughter  Mrs.  Margaret  Howard,  who  died  in  her  Passage  hither,  both 
which  are  to  be  Interred  at  Lyngfaeld  in  Surrey,  among  the  Ancestors 
of  that  Noble  Family.  This  Ship  left  my  Lord  Howard  very  well  re- 
covered of  his  late  Sickness. 


Early  Virginians  in  Maryland 
(Communicated  by  Charles  H.  Browning,  Ardmore,  Pa.) 

In  his  book,  "Virginia  Genealogies,"  (1891),  Mr.  Hayden,  in  his  ac- 
count of  the  Ball  family,  (pp.  52-3),  in  giving  the  issue  of  Col.  William 
Ball,  the  presumed  immigrant  of  this  family,  states: 

"1.  Richard,  d.  infant,  as  he  is  not  named  in  Col.  B's  will,"  (which 
was  dated  15  Oct.  1680). 

Already,  it  has  been  sufficiently  proved  in  this  Magazine  (Vol.  VIII. 
p.  80),  that  this  "Richard  Ball"  did  not  die  an  infant,  as  Hayden  sup- 
posed, but  lived  to  die  in  1677,  about  three  years  before  the  date  of  his 
father's  will  and  decease,  at  what  age  is  imknown,  but  it  was  some  thirty 
years  after  it  was  presumed  that  he  "died  an  infant." 

In  addition  to  v^^hat  has  been  recorded  of  this  Richard  Ball  in  this 
Magazine,  there  are  the  following  items  from  Maryland  records,  which 
also  concern  other  early  Virginians. 

Baltimore  C.  H.  Record  Office,  Deed  Bk.  Lib.  IR,  No.  PP,  fo.  88. 

"Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I,  William  Clapham,  in  ye 
County  of  Lancaster,  Virginia,  have  made,  and  constituted,  ordained, 
and  appointed  Mr.  Thomas  Todd,  of  Patapsco,  Baltimore  County,  Prov- 
ince of  Maryland,  my  la'W'ful  Attorney  to  be  acknowledged  either  in 
Baltimore  County,  or  the  Provincial  Court  of  Maryland.  In  Witness,  I 
have  hereunto  sett  my  hand  and  Seal  this  26th  Day  of  May,  1670. 

William  Clapham. 
Signed,  sealed  and  Delivered  in  the  presence  of  us, 

Wm.  Ball. 
Richard  Lunsfield. 

"I,  Jane  Clapham,  wife  of  the  above  named  William  Clapham,  doe 
hereby  give,  and  grant  my  full  and  free  assent  and  consent  to  the  Saile 
of  ye  above  mentioned  500  acres  of  Land,  and  doe  hereby  constitute  and 
ordain  the  above  named  Mr.  Thomas  Todd  to  be  my  true  and  Lawful 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  325 

Attorney  to  acknowledge  the  same  in  any  of  the  Courts  above  mentioned, 
allowing  and  confirming  what  he  shall  doe.  Jane  Clapham. 

(Witnessed  as  above,  by  Ball  and  Limsfield). 

These  two  powers  of  attorney  were  part  of  the  following  deed  of  con- 
veyance. 

"Whereas,  Walter  Dickerson  by  his  Ingagement,  or  condition,  under 
hand  bearing  Date  22d  Day  of  Nov.  1639,  doth  bind  and  oblige  himself, 
his  heirs  and  Executors,  to  take  up  500  acres  of  land  in  Patapsco  River, 
in  the  Province  of  Md.  and  to  erect  two  houses,  or  Edifices  thereon,  and 
to  deliver  a  Patent  for  the  same  soe  taken  up  and  built  upon,  to  William 
Clapham,  Sen'r,  or  his  assigns,  at  or  before  the  first  day  of  Feb.  1660, 
as  by  the  said  Condition  more  at  large  appeareth. 

"Now,  for  as  much  as  ye  sd  Dickerson  failed  of  Performance  of  the  sd 
Condition  both  in  delivering  a  Patent  and  building  ye  sd  Houses,  which  I, 
the  sd  William  Clapham,  was  utterly  incapable  to  force  him  to  in  regard 
of  ye  great  distance  of  my  residence  from  him,  did  therefore  on  ye  20th 
Day  of  Oct.  1668,  for  a  valuable  consideration  to  me  paid  by  RICHARD 
BALL,  of  Patapsco  afsd  in  ye  Province  of  Maryland,  assign  and  sett  over 
unto  ye  sd  Richard  Ball,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever  the  said  Judgement, 
or  Condition  with  all  my  whole  right  title  and  claim  to  and  in  ye  same, 
with  a  Letter  of  Attorney  bearing  the  same  date,  to  sue  for  and  recover 
the  sd  500  acres  of  Land,  to  his,  the  said  Richard  Ball's  own  proper  use 
and  behoof,  by  virtue  of  which  Letter  of  Attorney  having  treated  with 
ye  said  Dickerson  hee  ingaged  himself  by  the  first  of  month  last  past, 
1669,  to  deliver  to  said  Richard  Ball  a  Patent  for  500  acres  of  Land  lying 
in  Patapsco  River,  aforesaid,  which  hath  remained  upon  Record  in  the 
sd  Province  since  ye  year    *     *     *     * 

"Entered  by  said  Dickerson,  in  the  said  Clapham's  name,  to  be  the 
Land  for  satisfaction  of  ye  said  Condition,  and  then  also  to  build  ye  said 
Houses,  but  hath  not  yet  performed  the  said  promises,  nor  put  into  ac- 
tual possession  thereof.  "Now,  these  presents  thereof  Witness,  that  I,  the 
sd  WILLIAM  CLAPHAM,  doe  here  by  from  myself,  my  heirs  and  admin- 
istrators, grant,  bargain  and  sell  and  confirm  unto  the  sd  RICHARD 
BALL,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  forever,  500  acres  of  Land,  with  all  Edi- 
fices and  priveleges  thereunto  appertaining,  or  belonging,  and  for  the 
better  and  more  authentique  confirmation  of  ye  said  Saile  have  ap- 
pointed Mr.  Thomas  Todd  of  Patapsco,  to  be  my  true  and  Lawful  At- 
torney to  act  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  acknowledge  the  same. 

William  Clapham." 

William  Clapham,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  are  noticed  in  this  Magazine,  in  Vols. 
IV.  p.  81,  V.  pp.  159.  431,  XII.  p.  404,  XIII,  p.  129,  showing  that  William 
Clapham  was  a  grantee  for  Va.  land  as  early  as  1635,  and  that  he  and 
his  son  were  tithables  in  Lancaster  Co.  and  officers  of  the  parish  church, 
1652,  &c. 


326  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Richard  Ball  died  intestate  in  Maryland,  in  1677,  and  his  father.  Col. 
William  Ball,  administered  on  his  estate,  and  after  paying  the  debts, 
what  was  left  of  the  aforesaid  500  acres  went  to  his  only  child,  Hannah, 
wife  of  Thomas  Everest,  also  a  Lancaster  Co.  man, who  was"an  evidence" 
to  the  signature  of  Col.  Wm.  Ball  affixed  to  his  will,  5  Oct.  1680.  The 
Everests  sold  the  tract,  by  deed  dated  12  May  1681,  to  Nathaniel  Hinch- 
man,  and  removed  into  Calvart  Co.,  where  they  lived  at  The  Cliffs, 
in  1683.  The  tract,  known  as  "Clapham  Point,"  lay  in  "the  East  side 
of  the  Patapsco  River,"  in  Baltimore  Co.  Md.  and  in  time  was  divided 
and  sold.  Col.  John  Thomas,  by  indenture  dated  6  Nov.  1700,  sold  102 
acres  of  it  "for  £140  of  good  Lawful  money  of  England." 

Further  as  to  Mr.  Hayden's  "Ball"  pedigree,  (p.  65),  he  states  that 
Capt.  Joseph  Ball,  of  "Coan,"  No'd  Co.,  will  proved  in  1721,  m.  Mary, 
dau.  of  Col.  Nicholas  Spencer.  This  is  an  error.  His  wife  was  Mary, 
dau.  of  Spencer  Mottram.  Mr.  Hayden  also  was  uncertain  as  to  who  was 
the  wife  of  Capt.  George  Ball,  (p.  66),  will  proved  in  1746.  She  wa* 
Grace,  dau.  of  Anthony  Haynie,  will  proved  in  1709,  and  his  wife,  Sarah, 
dau.  of  Major  John  Harris,  will  proved  in  1713.  This  Sarah  m.  2d, 
Francis  Waddy,  of  No'd  Co.  And  Capt.  Ball's  son  Joseph  (p.  67)  m. 
Hannah,  dau.  of  Capt.  William  Haynie  and  his  wife,  Jane  Waddy,  andsaid 
Joseph  Ball's  sister  Sarah  Ball,  m.  Christopher  Dameron,  of  Wicomico, 
will  proved  in  1764. 


Entries  in  Read  Bible 

The  Revd  Thomas  Read  was  bom  on  Gwyns  Island  in  Virginia,  18th 
March  1748  [he  died  1826],  and  was  married  to  Sarah  Magruder  Daugh- 
ter of  Zadok  and  Rachel  Magruder  14th  October  1779 — Sarah  his  wife 
was  bom  23d  Jime  1755;  and  had  Issue  as  in  record  of  Births — 

The  Revd  Thomas  Read,  is  the  son  of  Gwyn  and  Dorothy  Read,  who 
was  the  daughter  of  the  Revd  Mr.  Clack  &  Jane  his  wife,  bom  24 
August  1714,  they  had  Issue — 

1.  Robert  Read  born  4  April  1734. 

2.  Lucy  Read  bom  26  Deer.  1735. 

3.  James  Read  bom  20  Mar.  1737. 

4.  Gwyn  Read  born  5  Apl.  1740. 

5.  Dorothy  Read  bom  11  Nov.  1742. 

6.  Jane  Read  bom  25  Nov.  1744. 

7.  John  Read  born  12  Mar.  1746. 

8.  Thomas  Read  bom  18  Mar.  1748. 

9.  Mary  Read  bom  27  May  1751. 

10.  Mildred  Read  bom  30  May  1753. 

11.  William  Read  bom  20  July  1755. 

12.  Francis  Read  bom  6  Augt.  1756. 

13.  William  Read  bom  25  Oct.  1758. 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  327 

The  Revd  Thomas  Read's  children — 

1.  John  Magruder  Read  bom  July  12th  1780. 

2.  Ann  Read  bom  June  8th  1783. 

3.  Elizabeth  Read  bom  Jany.  12th  1787. 

4.  Robert  Read  bom  Apl.  22nd  1789. 

5.  Susanna  Read  bom  July  4th  1791, 

6.  Thomas  Read  bom  May  7th  1794. 

7.  James  Read  bora  June  4th  1796. 

Deaths  of  the  above — 

Ann  Read  died  14  June  1783. 

Gwyn  Read,  Father  of  the  Revd  Thomas  Read  died  June  1762 — Doro- 
thy his  wife  May  1797. 

Col.  Zadok  Magmder  died  12  April  1811  aged  81.  Rachel  his  wife 
died  8th  Jany  1807— The  Father  and  mother  of  Sarah  Read  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Read. 

Marriages — 

John  Magruder  Read  to  Mary  Ann  Clark  the  9  November  1802. 
Susanna  Read  to  Alexr.  Suter  April  20,  1815. 
Robert  Read  to  Jane  Lynn  Lackland  Oct.  21st  1817. 

[Gwyn  Reade,  who  died  Jime  1762,  was  son  of  Benjamin  Reade  and 
grandson  of  Col.  George  Reade.  See  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  XV, 
117-123.] 


Will  of  Christian  Eppes — 1799. 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen 

I  Christian  Eppes  of  City  Point,  being  in  soxmd  mind  and  perfect 
Health,  though  knowing  the  uncertainty  of  Life;  do  ordain  the  folowing 
to  be,  my  last  Will  and  Testament. 
In.  primis. 

I  give  and  Bequeath  unto  my  loving  son  Archibald  Eppes,  one  third 
of  my  Slaves,  with  one  half  of  my  Stock  of  Horses,  Cows,  Hogs,  and  Sheep 
also  my  Carriage  and  carriage  Horses,  together  with  all  the  Fumiture 
of  my  House,  Kitchen  utensils,  and  plantation  utensils,  and  everything 
else  that  belongs  to  me,  which  shall  not  hereafter  be  expressly  given 
away, — 
Item, 

I  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  loving  son  Robertson  Eppes,  one  third 
of  my  Slaves,  with  the  remaining  half  of  my  stock  of  Horses,  Cattle,  Hogs 
and  Sheep, — 


328  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

Item, 

I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  loving  son  William  Eppes,  the  Remain- 
ing third  of  my  slaves,  together  with  one  Feather  Bed,  a  Horse  Bridle 
and  Saddle, — In  case  any  one  on  my  sons  should  die  before  the  age  of 
Twenty  one  or  without  Will, — I  then  give  and  bequeath,  that  property, 
which  I  left  my  deceased  son  to  my  two  Remaining  sons,  and  in  case  two 
should  die  before  the  age  of  twenty  one,  or  without  wills,  I  then  give  and 
bequeath  all  my  property  to  my  Surviving  son.  So  that  it  is  my  full  wish 

and Meaning,  that  neither  of  my  Daughters,  shall  have  any  part 

of  the  above  property,  dtiring  the  Life  of  either  one  of  my  three  Sons — 
Item, 

I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Loving  Daughter  Christian  Gilliam 
twenty  five  pounds  to  be  laid  out  in  some  thing  by  which  I  may  be  Re- 
membered, I  also  give  and  bequeth  unto  my  Loving  Daughter  Polly 
Eppes,  one  Negro  girl,  by  name  Tabby,  together  with  twenty  five  pounds 
to  be  laid  out  in  a  like  manner — It  is  my  wish  and  desire,  that  the  five 
Hundred  and  fifty  potmds  which  I  lent  my  son  Richard  Eppes,  should  be 
paid  by  his  heirs,  to  my  son  William,  as  a  part  of  the  Legacy  left  him  by 
his  Father. 

I  likewise  wish  my  Crops  and  all  other  property  arising  from  the 
Estate,  and  money  due  it,  first  to  be  appropriated  to  the  payment  of  my 
debts,  and  the  ballance  if  any,  to  be  divided  equally  between  my  Sons, — 
To  the  full  execution  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament.  I  appoint  my 
two   Loving   Sons,    Archibald  Eppes,  and  Robertson  Eppes,  Together 

with  my  Brother Archibald.     In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto 

Sign  my  Name,  this  tenth   day  of    February   in the    year  of  our 

Lord  one  Thousand  seven  Hundred  and  ninety  nine 

Christian  Eppes. 

It  is  my  wish  that  the  five  Hundred  and  fifty  pounds  which  I  lent 
my  son  Richard  Eppes  for  the  purpose  of  building,  should  not  carry  in- 
terest untill  my  death  and  then  for  it  to  be  appropriated  in  the  way  which 
I  have  before  directed,  so  that  the  principle  and  interest  arising  there- 
from, shall  by  no  means  exceed  the  legacy  left  my  son  William  Eppes  by 
his  Father.  

Marshall  Notes 

„,       ,,   „     ,  Ft.  Smith,  Ark.,  March  22,  1913. 

Hon.  Wm.  M.  Paxton, 

Platte  City,  Mo. 

My  Dear  Honored  Sir: — 

It  is  with  profoimd  respect  and  esteem  that  I  greet  you,  my  venerable 
friend,  after  a  long  silence.  You  have  passed  the  94th  mile  post  in  life's 
journey,  and  may  you  pass  many  more,  is  my  prayer. 

I  made  the  trip  of  my  life  during  Aug.,  Sept.  &  Oct.  of  last  year,  spend- 
ing nine  weeks  in  Kentucky  and  Virginia,  searching  State  and  County 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  32ft 

records,  old  family  Bibles,  tombstones  &c.  for  genealogical  data.  I 
am  happy  to  state  that  I  found  a  great  deal  of  most  valuable  and  inter- 
esting data,  relating  to  several  families,  among  them,  the  Marshalls  of 
Henry  Co.,  Ky.  Soon  after  my  return  home  I  was  taken  down  sick  and 
have  not  been  able  to  get  to  my  office  now  for  several  months.  Am 
slowly  improving  now  and  hope  to  get  out  as  soon  as  the  weather  turns 
warm. 

There  were  two  William  Marshalls  who  lived  and  died  in  Henry 
County,  Ky.  at  an  early  day,  one  the  Rev.  Wm.  Marshall,  whose  will 
you  give  a  partial  copy  of  at  pp.  33-34  of  your  Marshall  Family.  I  made 
a  full  copy  of  this  will,  dated  Dec.  18,  1806,  probated  at  New  Castle 
Dec.  Term  of  Co.  Court,  1809.  My  copy  I  made  from  the  original  will. 
The  other  William  Marshall  lived  and  died  at  "Fairhope,"  (name  of 
residence)  on  his  1,000  acre  survey  on  Little  Kentucky,  and  he  was  the 
ancestor  of  the  wife  of  Col.  R.  C.  Anderson,  Judge  Wm.  S.  Pryor,  who 
will  be  88  years  old  on  April  1st.  next,  Mrs.  Wiley  of  Fresno,  Cal.,  who 
has  the  wonderful  old  Marshall  Bible,  my  nephew,  Arthur  Pryor  Strother, 
et,  al.  This  Wm.  Marshall  died  intestate  in  1810;  the  appraisers  were 
sworn  by  "W.  Webb,"  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Aug.  25,  1810;  see  Will  Book  1 
p.  240.  His  son,  John  Marshall,  was  appointed  administrator  and  filed  his 
inventory,  of  date  Sept.  3,  1810,  which  was  ordered  recorded  at  Sept. 
Term  1810,  see  p.  241.  Report  of  sale  of  date  Oct.  25,  1810,  approved  at 
Dec.  Term  1810,  id.  pp.  255-256,  id.  pp.  304  to  308  is  settlement  of  John 
Marshall  Admr.  Est.  of  William  Marshall,  Deed.  Among  the  items  are 
the  following:  "For  clothing  bought  for  Lucy  Marshall  at  her  father's 
funeral  16.673^."  "Paid  to  James  John  for  making  coffin  for  said  Lucy 
Marshall  11.00." 

This  settlement  was  filed  at  May  Court  1812. 

From  Deed  Book  4.  p.  504,  I  abstracted  the  following: 

"We  William  Middleton,  David  White,  Jun,  &  Isham  Henderson  ap- 
pointed by  virtue  of  a  bond  executed  on  —  day  of  —  1813,  arbitrators 
to  settle  the  personal  estate  of  Wm.  Marshall  deed.  &  Lucy  Marshall 
deed,  between  the  heirs  and  representatives  of  said  decedents  John 
Marshall  being  one  of  the  heirs — also  former  administrator  of  the  Est. 
of  said  William  deceased  &  having  met  at  the  house  of  John  Samuel  in 
New  Castle  on  the  25th  February  1813  &  having  made  adjournments  to 
this  day  &  having  proceeded  according  to  the  conditions  of  said  bond. 
Do  now  finally  award  that  the  said  John  Marshall  Admr.  as  aforesaid  is 
indebted  to  Richard  C.  Anderson  in  the  right  of  his  wife  Sally  the  sum 
of  two  hundred  fifty  seven  dollars  twenty  seven  cents,  to  William  Webb 
in  right  of  his  wife  Polly  the  sum  of  seventy  Dollars  nine  cents,  to  Anne 
C.  Samuell  one  hundred  and  fifteen  dollars  seventy  nine  cents,  to  Robert 
Tompkins  in  right  of  his  wife  Frances  Sixty  seven  dollars  seventy  nine 
cents,  &  that  the  said  Administrator  make  payments  to  the  said  heirs 


330  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE 

accordingly  or  execute  his  note  to  them  respectively  for  the  same." 
Dated  March  5th,  1813.    Recorded  March  6,  1813. 

In  deed  Book  1  p.  115,  is  deed  from  William  Marshall  of  Henry  Co. 
Ky.  to  Wm.  Kinice,  dated,  Feby.  10,  1801,  conveying  100  acres  on  Pat- 
ton's  creek  (now  in  Trimble  county.)  His  wife  must  have  been  dead 
at  this  time. 

In  D.  B.  4.  656,  July  18,  1809,  "Wm.  Marshall  of  Henry  Co.  Ky."  to 
John   Doag  (?),  25   pounds   conveys   tract  "on  waters  of   Little  Ky. 
being  part  of  said  Marshall  Survey  of  1000  acre  tract."     100  acres  is 
conveyed. 
Recorded  Aug.  7,  1809.  (signed)  "Wm.  Marshall  (seal)." 

"Kentucky  Patents  in  Virginia 

State  Land  Oflfice,  Book  23,  p.  457,  is  patent  to  William  Marshall,  3, 
March,  1791,  1000  acres  adjoining  James  Pattons  8400  acre  survey,  upon 
Land  Office  Treasury  Warrant  No.  3352,  issued  4  Mch  1780. 

The  marriage  records  of  Henry  County,  Ky.  show  that  John  Marshall 
(the  Administrator  above)  married  Milly  Field  April  11,  1813.  She  was 
a  descendant  of  Col.  John  Field,  who  was  killed  at  Point  Pleasant,  Oct. 
10,  1774.  John  Marshall,  ("Capt.  Jack")  was  drowne4  in  the  Ohio  river 
during  a  storm.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  Mrs.  Wiley  of  Fresno,  Cala. 
but  not  of  my  nephew,  Arthur  Pryor  Strother,  as  you  state  in  some  of 
your  letters.  He  is  a  descendant  of  said  John  Marshall's  sister,  "Polly 
Webb,"  who  married  William  Webb,  Jr.  son  of  Wm.  Webb,  Sr.,  who 
resided  on  lands  adjoining  said  William  Marshall,  and  the  Wm.  Webb., 
Jr.  homestead  is  said  to  have  been  a  part  of  the  William  Marshall  1000 
acre  survey.  I  found  the  old  Wm.  Webb,  Sr.  Bible  in  Lagrange,  Ky. 
&  copied  the  family  records  therein,  Wm.  Webb,  Sr.  was  b.  Apl.  21,  1741. 
Mary,  his  wife  b.  Mch.  14,  1749,  married  Dec.  7,  1769.  "Will  son  of 
William  and  Mary  b.  May  1,  1772."     Wm.  Webb,  Sr.  died  June  15,  1827. 

I  visited  the  old  William  Marshall  home,  "Fairhope,"  in  the  edge  of 
Trimble  coimty,  Ky.,  which  county  was  cut  off  from  Henry  and  other 
counties,  in  1836.  I  ate  dinner  there  with  the  present  owner,  Mr.  James  B. 
Sibley,  an  old  friend  of  mine.  I  was  greatly  surprised  to  find  this  old  Mar- 
shall home  to  be  the  identical  old  John  Sibley  place  I  visited  over  fifty 
years  ago,  with  my  good  old  grandfather,  Rev.  George  Strother,  who  was 
bom  in  Culpeper  coimty,  Va.,  Feb.  14,  1776,  and  died  in  Trimble  county, 
Ky.,  July  30,  1864.  I  visited  Mr.  James  B.  Sibley  and  his  sister  there 
in  1870  odd.  After  a  splendid  dinner,  in  company  with  Mr.  James  B. 
and  his  elder  brother,  Mr.  Leonard  Sibley,  I  went  to  the  old  William 
Marshall  grave  yard,  east  of  the  dwelling  some  200  yards,  and  there 


NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  331 

examined  the  tombstones  to  the  many  graves,  but  unfortvinately  there 
was  but  one  marble  stone  among  them,  and  that  is  to  the  grave  of  "Polly 
Webb,"  and  reads  as  follows: 

"Polly  M. 

Wife  of 

Wm.  Webb 

Died  of  Cholera 

Aug.  25,  1850 

in  her  62  year 

Prepare  to  follow  me." 

The  grave  yard  is  in  the  edge  of  a  grove,  and  a  large  wild  cherry  tree 
has  grown  up  on  the  grave  of  Polly  Webb  and  has  pushed  the  stone  over 
considerably.  All  other  graves  were  marked  by  native  rough  stones  of 
good  size,  but  with  no  inscriptions  on  them.  Mr.  Leonard  Sibley  stated 
to  me,  then  and  there,  that  he  was  present  when  the  grave  of  Polly  Webb 
was  dug,  and  saw  her  body  put  therein.  That  the  negro  man  who  dug 
the  grave  was  standing  by  him  when  the  sled,  bringing  the  remains  to 
the  grave  came  near,  gave  an  exclamation  of  fright  and  disappeared 
in  the  woods. 

When  we  returned  to  the  house,  Mr.  James  B.  Sibley  pointed  out  a 
spot  in  the  garden,  just  back  of  the  dwelling,  and  remarked  that,  "Maj. 
Anderson  of  Sumter  fame,  was  bom  on  that  spot;  that  a  log  house  once 
stood  there,  which  was  the  original  Marshall  home,  and  that  he  had  re- 
moved a  number  of  the  foundation  stones  from  that  spot." 

That  wonderful  old  Marshall  Bible  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Marshall  Wiley,  of  Fresno,  California,  gives  the  date  of  birth  of  Mary 
(Polly)  Marshall  as  follows:  "Mary  Marshall,  b.  Nov.  10,  1776,  m. 
William  Webb."  This  entry  and  the  tombstone  inscription  do  not  tally 
by  a  good  deal.  This  old  Marshall-Sibley  home  is  located  on  the  north 
side  of  the  Little  Kentucky  Creek,  about  one  and  a  half  miles  E.  of  N.  of 
Sulphur  station,  on  the  Louisville  and  Cincinnati  Short  Line,  now  oper- 
ated by  the  Louisville  and  Nashville  R.  R. 

Mr.  John  Sibley,  the  father  of  the  above  named  James  B.  and  Leonard 
Sibley  bought  this  Marshall  place  a  few  years  after  the  death  of  Wm. 
Marshall  and  lived  there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  Aug.  14,  1877. 

This  William  Marshall,  and  Samuel  Pryor,  (the  grandfather  of  my 
old  friend  and  kinsman,  Judge  Wm.  S.  Pryor,  of  New  Castle,  Henry  Co., 
Ky.,  who  will  be  88  years  old  on  the  1st.  day  of  next  month,  as  above 
stated,)  were  among  the  12  jurors  who  were  appointed  by  the  County 
Court  of  Henry  County,  Ky.,  to  assess  the  damages  to  adjoining  prop- 
erty owners,  by  reason  of  the  mill  race,  dam  &c.  of  George  Strother's 
mill  site  on  Com  Creek,  Henry  county,  Ky.     The  jury  reported  on  Aug. 


332  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

24,  1802,  that  there  were  no  damages  to  other  property  owners,  as  the 
race  and  dam  were  on  the  lands  belonging  to  said  George  Strother. 
This  George  Strother  was  the  writer's  grandfather. 

I  trust  this  letter  will  be  of  interest  to  you,  and  will  say  that  I  could 
give  more  of  the  Henry  county,  Ky.  records,  which  would  be  of  interest 
to  the  direct  descendants  of  this  William  Marshall,  but  will  not  mention 
them  now. 

With  kindest  regards  and  great  respect,  I  am 

Sincerely  yours, 

Henry  Strother. 


Ft.  Smith,  Ark.,  March  10th,  1913. 
County  Clerk  of  Westmoreland  County,  Montross,  Va. 
Dear  Sir:— 

I  desire  to  know  from  you  who  made  the  Marshall  will,  stated  by  Mr. 
Wm.  M.  Paxton  in  his  "Marshall  Family"  as  of  date  1st  day  of  April, 
1752,  Probated  May  26,  1752,  with  Benjamin  Rollins,  William  Houston 
&  Augustine  Smith,  witnesses,  "and  which  mentions  the  following 
children:  daughter,  "Sarah  Lovell,"  daughter,  "Ann  Smith,"  daughter, 
"Lizzie  Smith,"  wife  "Elizabeth  Marshall,"  son,  "John,"  son,  "Thomas, 
son, "William,"  son, "Abraham,"  daughter, "Mary,"  daughter,  "Peggy." 

Mr.  Henry  Marmaduke,  who  recently  examined  records  in  your  office, 
reports  this  as  the  will  of  William  Marshall,  and  from  other  source  it  is 
reported  to  be  the  will  of  Thomas  Marshall.  Please  settle  this  ques- 
tion for  me!  Last  Sept.  I  examined  the  record  of  the  will  of  the  above 
widow,  Elizabeth  Marshall,  of  date  April  17,  1779,  proven  May  17,1779, 
recorded  in  Will  Book  "B."  p.  287-9  in  Culpeper  C.  H.  "Abraham" 
above  is  called   "Markham,"   which  was  his  correct  name.     I   know 

there  is  a  Thomas  Marshall  will  in  your  office  of  date, ,  probated, 

May  31,  1704,  but  I  am  not  after  that  will  now. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  you  to  know  that  the  above  Henry  Marmaduke 
was  a  Lieutenant  on  the  Merrimack  in  her  fight  with  the  Monitor,  and 
is  about  the  last  survivor  of  that  crew.  He  is  a  son  of  Governor  M.  M. 
Marmaduke,  and  a  brother  of  General  and  Governor  John  S.  Marmaduke 
of  Missouri.     I  have  known  him  many  years. 

I  hope  some  day  to  get  to  your  county  and  himt  up  what  Strother 
records  you  may  have  in  your  office.  Is  the  original  will  mentioned 
above,  in  your  office  now,  or  were  the  old  papers  destroyed  during  Rev- 
olutionary War,  or  Civil  War? 

Trusting  that  you  may  give  me  an  early  reply,  I  am, 

Sincerely  yours, 

Henry  Strother. 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES.  333 

(Note— On  March  21st,  1913,  I  reed,  from  the  Clerk  the  following, 
written  on  the  bottom  of  the  original  of  this,  which  was  returned  to  me. 
The  red  ink  marks  &c  above  correspond  to  the  Clerk's  check  marks  & 
words. 

H.  Strother. 

'Dear  Sir:— 

The  will  above  to  which  you  have  reference  is  neither  the  will  of 
Thomas  nor  of  William  Marshall,  but  is  the  will  of  John  Marshall,  and  is 
of  the  date  and  mentions  the  children  as  you  have  them  stated  above 
and  of  which  I  have  checked.  We  have  no  will  on  record  of  a  William 
Marshall  but  there  is  a  will  of  Thomas  Marshall,  probated  1704  as  stated 
above  in  your  letter. 
Trusting  this  is  satisfactory,  I  am. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(signed)  "Albert  Stuart,  Dept.  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Westmoreland  County,  Virginia. 
March  17,  1913." 
(The  above  is  a  true  copy  of  the  reply  of  the  Clerk,  made  by  me  this 
March  21,  1913.) 

Henry  Strother. 


PoiNDEXTER  CORRECTION.  In  Vol.  XX,  107,  fot  Triton,  read  Irion. 
Sarah  Poindexter  born  about  1744,  married  Aug.  12,  1765,  Philip  Jacob 
Irion,  and  died  October  27,  1814,  leaving  a  large  family.  Most  of  her 
descendants  reside  in  Louisiana. 


VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 


BOOK  REVIEWS 


Chronicles  of  the  Scx)tch-Irish  SETn.EMENT  in  Virginia  [Abstracts  of 
the  Records  of  Augusta  County,  Virginia].      Extracts  from  the 
original  Court  Records  of  Augusta  County  1745-1800.     By  Lyman 
Chalkley,  Dean  of  the  College  of  Law  of  Kentucky  University, 
late  Judge  of  the  Cotinty  Court  of  Augusta  Coimty,  Virginia. 
Published  by  Mary  S.  Lockwood,  Honorary  Vice-President  Gen- 
eral, National  Society,  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 
Complete  in  three  volumes,   Vol.    IL   Printers — The    Common- 
wealth Company,  Rosslyn,  Va.     pp.  653,  with  full  index. 
All  the  good  things  which  have  been  said  about  the  first  volume 
of  this  series  can  be  repeated  and  emphasized  in  regard  to  this  one.      It 
includes  abstracts  of  the  papers  filed  in  suits  in  the  old  district  and  cir- 
cuit courts  at  Staunton,  comprising  depositions,  wills,  deeds,  bills  and 
answers,  &c,  which  contain  so  much  information  that,  literally,  it  seems 
there  cannot  be  a  name  between  the  Potomac  and  the  North  Carolina 
line,  the  Blue  Ridge  and  the  Ohio,  which  is  not  mentioned.      As    many 
Eastern  Virginia  people  owned  land  in  the  Western  portion  of  the  colony 
and  state,  and  as  the  jurisdiction  of  these  courts  extended  to  some  of 
the  counties  this  side  the  mountains,  there  are  also  many  references  to 
Eastern  people.     For  instance,  in  1804,  there  is  a  suit  by  Chiswell's 
heirs,  which  gives  the  names  of  all  of  the  descendants  of  Col.  Jno.  Chis- 
well  up  to  that  date. 

The  genealogical  interest  is  only  a  part  of  the  value  of  the  book. 
It  shows,  in  a  way  never  shown  before,  the  immense  and  long  continued 
emigration  from  Augusta  and  adjoining  coimties  to  the  West  and  South. 
It  gives  details  of  many  early  settlements  along  the  frontier,  and  shows 
who  built  the  forts  and  cabins.  It  illustrates  a  land-hunger  such  as  has 
only  been  revealed  in  later  times  when  the  United  States  has  opened  up 
new  areas  for  settlement.  There  are  masses  of  information  about  the 
soldiers  of  the  French  and  Indian,  and  Revolutionary  wars.  Hundreds 
of  pages  are  given  to  the  marriage  records  of  Augusta,  Rockbridge  and 
Rockingham.  There  are  references  to  schools  and  school-masters  on 
pages  24,  28,  78,  124,  144,  160,  200,  208,  217, (two),  218,  221,  224,  226,  264, 
268,  and  possibly  others  places. 

On  p.  258  is  a  very  interesting  extract  from  the  will  of  Dr.  James 
Hopkins  of  Amherst  Co.,  who,  in  1803,  made  what  was  probably  the  first 
bequest  of  its  kind  in  Virginia;  and  who  left  property  to  found  a  small 
hospital  for  the  treatment  of  consumption,  cancer  and  venereal  disease. 
Only  an  examination  of  the  book  itself  can  give  a  proper  idea  of  the  va- 
riety and  value  of  its  contents. 


BOOK    REVIEWS.  335 

There  are  probably,  of  course,  errors  in  transcription  or  printing, 
but  one  which  has  been  noted  is  of  interest.  The  Richmond  County 
home  of  John  Monroe,  a  kinsman  of  the  President,  is  printed  Fanlis.  It 
should  be  Foulis,  showing  that  the  Virginia  family  remembered  the  old 
home  in  Scotland. 

As  was  the  case  with  the  previous  volume  the  index  is  very  good. 

Mrs.  Lockwood's  address  is  The  Columbia,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Portraits  of  Patrick  Henry.    By  Charles  Henry  Hart,  Philadelphia, 
1913.     Reprint  from   Proceedings  of  the  Numismatic  and  Anti- 
quarian Society  of  Philadelphia,  pp.  5,  with  engravings  of  the 
Thomas  Sully  portrait  and  Lawrence  Sully  miniature. 
In  the  paper  here  printed  Mr.  Hart  studies  the  two  portraits  of 
Patrick  Henry,  pronovinces  against  the  accuracy  of  the  well-known  por- 
trait by  Thomas  Sully,  formerly  owned  by  Mr.  W.  W.  Henry  of  this  city, 
and  attributes  high  value  to  the  miniature,  imtil  recently  the  property  of 
Mr.  J.  Syme  Fleming,  also  of  this  city.      Mr.  Hart  discovered  that  the 
miniature  was  by  Lawrence  Sully  and  was  painted  in  1795. 

Virginia  and  the  Independence  of  Texas.     By  James  E.  Winston. 

Reprint  from  the  Southwestern  Historical  Quarterly,  January, 

1913,  pp. 7. 

Professor  Winston  briefly  but  interestingly  describes  the  part 
taken  by  Virginians  in  securing  the  independence  of  Texas.  Besides 
such  leaders  as  Austin,  Houston  and  Archer,  there  were  many  other 
Virginians  who  did  honorable  and  useful  service. 

Carlyle  Family  and  Descendants  of  John  and  Sarah  (Fairfax)  Car- 
lyle.  The  Carlyle  House  and  its  Associations.  By  Richard 
Henry  Spencer,  Richmond,  Va.  Whittet  and  Shepperson,  1910, 
pp.  58,  with  14  illustrations. 

Mr.  Spencer  has  given  a  carefully  prepared  and  interesting  account 
of  the  Carlyle  family  in  Scotland,  of  their  descendant,  John  Carlyle,  of 
Alexandria,  Va.,  and  of  the  few  old  houses  still  standing  in  that  City, 
which  he  built,  and  which  is  noted  as  having  been  the  scene  of  the  con- 
ference at  which  Braddock  planned  his  unlucky  campaign. 

Literary  Influences  in  Colonial  Newspapers,  1704-1750.  By  Eliza- 
beth Christine  Cook,  Ph.D.,  New  York.  Columbia  University 
Press,  1912.  Lemcke  &  Buechner,  New  York,  Agents,  pp.  279, 
with  index. 

A  thesis  for  a  doctorate  in  a  college  or  vmiversity  of  good  standing 
is  usually  quite  a  worthy  product  of  grubbing  among  "the  sources"  for 
information  in  regard  to  a  subject  which  the  writer  has  previously  known 
little  or  nothing  about.  Often  the  investigations  of  the  student  produce 
something  of  real  value.  They  rarely  do  more,  and  the  results  are  fre- 
quently dreary  reading  even  for  the  most  interested. 


336  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE 

Not  so  with  Miss  Cook.  She  has  taken  a  subject  which  evidently 
appealed  strongly  to  her  and  in  regard  to  which  she  already  had  much 
preparation. 

From  Boston  to  Charleston  all  of;  the  Colonial  newspapers  prior 
to  1750  have  been  carefully  studied  and  the  various  literary  influences 
shown  are  noted.  The  result  is  a  book  which  is  not  only  very  instructive, 
but  which  will  prove  most  attractive  to  all  interested  in  English  litera- 
ture and  its  influence  in  the  Colonies.     It  is  a  delightful  book. 

The  author  treats,  in  separate  chapters,  of  The  New  England 
CouRANT,  The  New  England  Weekly  Journal,  Bradford's  American 
Mercury,  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  the  war  between  Bradford's 
New  York  Gazette,  and  Zenger's  New  York  Weekly  Journal,  The 
Maryland  Gazette,  The  Virginia  Gazette,  The  South  Carolina 
Gazette  and  a  good  bibliography. 

We  in  Virginia  are,  of  course,  most  interested  in  the  chapter  on 
our  gazette.  The  author  examines  at  length  a  series  of  essays  in  the 
Virginia  Gazette  of  1738,  entitled  "The  Monitor",  and  finds  them  to  be 
evidently  by  a  Virginia  author.  As  compared  with  other  original  essays 
in  the  colonial  press,  she  gives  this  series  a  high  place.  In  concluding 
this  chapter,  Miss  Cook  says:  "The  extant  files,  as  we  have  seen,  furnish 
a  variety  of  excellent  prose  and  tolerable  verse.  Most  of  the  prose  could 
stand  comparison  with  the  best  pieces  in  the  Pennsylvania  Gazette 
[Franklin's  paper],  while  it  would  be  a  poor  compliment  to  the  verse 
in  the  Virginia  Gazette  to  compare  it  with  that  in  any  other  Colonial 
weekly  except  the  Charleston  paper." 

The  opinion  of  a  scholarly  New  England  woman  in  regard  to  sub- 
jects of  which  she  is  so  competent  to  speak  must  have  much  weight. 


JOHN  MARSHALL— An  Address  by  Mary  Newton  Stanard.  Read 
before  the  Association  for  the  Preservation  of  Virginia  Antiquities,  at 
the  opening  of  John  Marshall  House,  Thursday,  March  27,  1913.  To- 
gether with  a  description  of  the  House  and  its  contents.  Published  by 
the  Association  for  the  Preservation  of  Virginia  Antiquities.  William 
Ellis  Jones's  Sons,  Inc.,  printers,  Richmond,  Va.,  1913.  pp.  48.  Seven 
full  page  illustrations. 

For  sale  at  the  John  Marshall  House,  Richmond,  Virginia.  Price, 
Fifty  Cents. 


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Virginia  Magazine 

OF 

HISTORY  AND  BIOGRAPHY. 

Vol.  XXI.  OCTOBER,  1913.  No.  4 


VIRGINIA'S  SOLDIERS  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


A  Bibliography  of  Muster  and  Pay  Rolls,  Regimental 

Histories,  Etc.,  with  Introductory  and  Explanatory 

Notes  by  C.  A.  Flagg,  Catalogue  Division,  and 

W.    O.    Waters,    Bibliography    Division, 

Library  of  Congress. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XX,  281.) 
SECTION  IV. 

Regiments  of  the  Virginia  State  Line. 

A  note  on  the  status  of  these  regiments  was  given  in  the 
introduction  (Virginia  Magazine,  October,  1911,  v.  19,  p.  407). 
These  state  regiments  were  regular  troops  of  Virginia,  raised 
in  addition  to  the  regiments  in  the  Continental  line.  As  with 
the  latter,  their  service  was  not  confined  to  the  defence  of  the 
commonwealth,  but  several  of  the  state  regiments  rendered 
aid  to  the  general  cause  beyond  the  present  boundaries  of 
Virginia. 


338  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

In  1782  a  Board  of  field  officers,  appointed  by  the  Governor 
of  Virginia,  made  a  report  on  the  officers  entitled  to  half-pay. 
The  list  of  state  organizations  included  in  their  report  (see 
House  report  191,  22d  Congress,  1st  session)  is  as  follows: 

First  state  regiment. 

Second  state  regiment. 

State  artillery  regiment  (Marshall's). 

State  garrison  regiment  (Muter's). 

Illinois  dragoons  (Rogers'). 

State  cavalry  regiment  (Nelson's). 

Illinois  regiment  (Clark's). 

Crockett's  regiment. 
It  seems  proper  to  add  to  the  list  Taylor's  Convention  guards, 
an  organization  raised  and  officered  by  the  state  at  the  request 
of  Congress,  for  the  ptupose  of  guarding  Burgoyne's  troops 
dtuing  their  residence  in  Virginia.  Although  on  Continental 
establishment,  this  was  not  a  Continental  Hne  regiment,  nor 
can  it  be  considered  as  belonging  to  the  militia. 

The  two  legions  authorized  by  an  act  passed  in  June,  1781, 
should  also  be  included  in  the  list  of  state  regiments.  These 
were  raised  for  defence  of  the  state  at  the  time  of  the  British 
invasion,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

First    State    Regiment,     1776-1782. 

One  of  three  regiments  authorized  by  the  General  Assembly  in  Decem- 
ber, 1776.  Field  officers  for  the  First  regiment  were  elected  by  the 
General  Assembly,  December  19-20,  1776.  William  Grayson  was  chosen 
Colonel,  but  did  not  accept  his  commission  and  entered  the  Continental 
service  soon  after  Enlistments  for  the  state  regiments  were  slow,  Governor 
Henry  reporting  in  March,  1777,  that  the  quotas  were  not  half  full.  In 
June,  1777,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Haynes  Morgan  was  chosen  by  the  General 
Assembly  to  succeed  Colonel  Grayson.  In  July,  1777,  the  First  regiment' 
commanded  by  Colonel  George  Gibson,  was  on  the  march  to  join  General 
Washington.  Colonel  Gibson  had  been  elected  colonel  of  the  Third  reg- 
iment the  previous  month,  and  the  reason  of  his  transfer  to  the  First 
regiment  is  not  clear.  It  would  appear,  however,  from  the  Journal  of 
the  House  of  Delegates,  November  28,  1777,  that  Colonel  Morgan  had 
been  placed  in  command  of  all  the  state  infantry.  By  act  of  the  General 
Assembly,  passed  in  January,  1778,  it  was  directed  that  the  First  state 


Virginia's  soldiers  in  the  revolution.  339 

regiment,  "now  in  Continental  service,  be  continued  in  the  said  service 
instead  of  the  Ninth  Virginia  regiment,  made  prisoners  by  the  enemy 
in  the  battle  of  Germantown."  Colonel  Gibson's  regiment  served  under 
Washington  till  the  close  of  the  year  1779,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Virginia. 
The  details  of  its  further  service  have  not  been  ascertained.  By  act  of 
the  General  Assembly  passed  in  January,  1782,  it  was  directed  that  the 
state  troops  be  consolidated  into  one  or  more  corps,  with  a  corresponding 
reduction  in  the  number  of  officers.  This  reduction  was  eflFected  and  the 
organization  so  formed  (Dabney's  legion)  was  placed  under  the  command 
of  Colonel  Charles  Dabney,  of  the  Second  state  regiment. 

Field  Officers. 

Colonel. — William  Grayson,  December  19,  1776 — January,  1777. 
Declined  commission. 
Haynes  Morgan,  Jime  5,  1777— July  (1)  1777. 
George  Gibson,  July  (?)  1777— February  (?)  1781.     Resigned. 
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Haynes  Morgan,  December  20,  1776 — June  5,  1777. 
Promoted. 
John    Allsion,    February,    1778— February,    1782. 
Supernumerary,  1782. 
Major.— Nathaniel  Cocke,  December  20,  1776— (?). 

John  Allison,  1777  (?)— February,  1778.     Promoted. 
Thomas  Merriwether,  February  2,  1778-1782.     Supernumerary, 
February  or  April,  1782. 

Titles. 

List  of  balances  due  the  dead  and  deserted  of  the  1st  Virginia 
state  regt.,  commanded  by  Col  George  Gibson,  Sept.  16,  1777 
to  Jan.  1,  1778.  (Gleanings  of  Virginia  history.  By  W.  F. 
Boogher.     Washington,  D.  C,  1903.     p.  181-184). 

Second  State  Regiment,   1776-1782. 

Authorized  by  the  General  Assembly  in  December,  1776.  Field 
officers  were  elected  by  the  Assembly,  December  20,  1776.  By  act  of 
Assembly,  passed  in  January,  1778,  it  was  provided  that  such  state  troops 
as  had  already  been  enlisted  should  be  formed  into  a  battalion  of  eight 
companies  and  marched  to  join  the  Continental  army.  The  act  of  Decem- 
ber, 1776,  authorized  the  enlistment  of  three  regiments  of  state  troops. 
Officers  were  chosen  for  the  Third  regiment  in  December,  1776,  and  June, 
1777.  As  we  have  found  no  later  mention  of  the  Third  regiment,  it  seems 
probable  that  its  organization  was  abolished  and  that  the  men  already 
enlisted  were  incorporated  with  the   Second  regiment.    This  would 


340  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

appear  to  be  the  intent  of  the  act  of  January,  177S.  The  Second  regiment 
probably  marched  in  May,  1778  to  join  Washington's  army.  It  remained, 
with  the  First  state  regiment  in  the  Continental  service  till  the  close  of 
the  campaign  of  1779.  In  April  and  May,  1780,  280  men  were  discharged, 
about  30  remaining  for  the  war.  The  remnants  of  the  state  regiments 
appear  to  have  been  collected  by  Colonel  Charles  Dabney  in  the  summer 
of  1781  and  to  have  been  imder  his  command  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown. 
A  consolidation  of  all  the  state  troops  into  one  battalion  was  directed  by 
an  act  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  in  January',  1782.  The  state 
troops  were  finally  disbanded  in  April,  1783. 

Field  Officers. 

Colonel. — James  Dimcanson,  December  20,  1776 — ?. 
■^Gregory  Smith,  June,  1777—?. 

William  Brent,  January  1,    779-1782.     Supernu    erary,  April, 
1782. 
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Thomas  Blackburn,  December  20,  1776 — ?     June 
12   (?)   1777.     Resigned. 
William  Brent,  June   14,    1777— January   1,    1779. 

Promoted. 
Charles  Dabney,  1778  (?) 
Major.— William  Brent,  Jr.,  December  20,  1776— June  14,   1777.     Pro- 
moted. 
John  Lee,  February  1,  1778-1782.     Supernumerary,  February  or 
April,  1782. 
*Heitman. 

Titles. 

Revolutionary  army  orders  for  the  main  army  under  Wash- 
ington, 1778-1779.  (Virginia  magazine  of  history  and  biog- 
raphy, Apr.  1906— Apr.  1913.     v.  13-21.) 

From  papers  of  Charles  Dabney,  lieutenant-colonel,  Second 
state  regiment.  Includes  general,  brigade  and  regimental 
orders. 

Third  State  Regiment,  1776-1778. 

Authorized  by  the  General  Assembly  in  December,  1776.  Field  officers 
were  elected  by  the  Assembly,  December  20,  1776.  In  March,  1777, 
Governor  Henry  reported  that  the  three  state  regiments  were  about 
half  filled.  By  an  act  passed  in  January,  1778,  the  troops  enlisted  for  the 
Third  state  regiment  were  added  to  the  Second  state  regiment,  which 
was  sent  to  the  North  in  May,  1778,  to  join  the  Continental  army. 


Virginia's  soldiers  in  the  revolution.  341 

Field  Officers. 

Colonel. — Philip  Love,    December  20,    1776 — ?     Did  not  accept  com- 
mission. 
George   Gibson,    June    10,    1777— July    (?)    1777.     Appointed 
Colonel  of  First  state  regiment. 
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Gregory  Smith,  December  20,  1776 — ^June  (?)  1779. 

Appointed  Colonel  of  Second  state  regiment. 
Major. — Charles    Dabney,    December    20,    1776 — ?     Later    lieutenant- 
colonel   of   Second   Continental   regiment   till  September,  1778.     Lieu- 
tenant-colonel of  Second  state  regiment,  1778  (?) — 

Artillery  Regiment,  1777-1781? 

The  act  authorizing  this  regiment  was  passed  by  the  General  Assembly 
in  Jime,  1777.  The  regiment  was  to  consist  of  ten  companies  of  68  men 
each,  besides  officers.  Field  officers  were  elected  by  the  General  Assem- 
bly, November  15,  1777.  Governor  Henry  reported  the  regiment  not 
yet  nearly  filled  in  May,  1778.  In  December,  1779,  its  strength  was 
about  350  men.  It  suffered  severe  losses  at  Camden  in  August,  1780. 
The  regiment  returned  to  Virginia  early  in  1781,  and  most  of  the  men 
were  discharged.  Those  that  remained  were  mustered  into  Dabney's 
legion  after  Comwallis'  surrender. 

Field  Officers. 

Colonel.— Thomas    Marshall,    November    15,    1777— February,  1781  ? 
Appointed  in  1781  commissioner  to  settle  public  accounts 
in  the  West. 
Lieutenant-Colonel.— George    Muter,    November    15,    1777—1780? 
In  command  of  Garrison  regiment  in  1780. 
Elias  Edmunds,  April  16,  1780 — February  or  April, 
1782.     Supernumerary,     February    or    April, 
1782. 
Major. — Thomas  Mathews,  November  15,  1777 — ? 

John  Mazarett.     In  command  as  major,  February,   1781.     In 
list  of  "discriminated"  officers,  1782. 

State  Cavalry  Regiment,  1778-1781? 

Formed  under  an  act  passed  in  May,  1779,  which  authorized  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  to  enlist  as  many  troops  of  cavalry  as  should  seem  need- 
ful to  meet  the  emergency  of  the  British  invasion  of  that  year.  Four 
troops  were  raised.  An  act  passed  in  December,  1779  ordered  that  the 
battalion  be  reduced  to  three  troops,  to  be  completed  and  retained  in  the 
service  of  the  state.  Under  Major  Nelson's  command,  the  organization 
was  ordered  south  in  1780  and  was  present  at  Camden  .  After  Yorktown 
the  remnants  of  the  corps  appear  to  have  been  consolidated  with  other 
state  troops  as  Dabney's  legion. 


342  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Field  Officer 

Major-commandant. — John  Nelson,  June  24,  1779-1783? 

Garrison  Regiment,  1778 — 

This  regiment  was  authorized  in  Jxine,  1778.  Its  purpose  was  to  gar- 
rison the  harbor  fortifications  of  the  state.  It  was  to  consist  of  eight 
companies  of  68  men  each,  with  the  usual  officers.  Service  was  to  be  for 
three  years.  The  regiment  took  part  in  the  southern  campaign  of  1780 
under  the  command   of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Porterfield.     In  January, 

1781,  the  strength  of  the  organization  was  174.  During  this  year  it  was 
united  to  the  remnants  of  the  First  and  Second  state  regiments  by  order 
of  the  Governor  and  Council.     Under  an  act  of  Assembly  of  January, 

1782,  a  second  consolidation  was  effected  of  the  remnants  of  the  various 
state  organizations  into  a  legion  under  Colonel  Charles  Dabney. 

Field  Officers. 

Colonel. — George  Muter,     ? — Apr.   1,   1781.     Appointed  Commissioner 

of  the  Virginia  War  Office,  1780. 
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Charles    Porterfield,    August    14,    1779 — Jan.    10, 
1781.     Mortally  wovmded  at  Camden,  August 
16,  1780;  died  January  10,  1781. 
Major. — Charles  Magill,     ? — April   1,    1781.     Supernumerary,   April    1, 
1781. 
Alexander  Dick,      ?— December,  ?  1782. 

Illinois  Regiment,  1778-1782(?) 

This  regiment  was  raised  imder  an  act  of  Assembly  passed  in  January, 
1778,  authorizing  an  expedition  for  the  protection  of  the  western  frontiers. 
George  Rogers  Clark  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  colonel  of  Virginia 
militia  by  Governor  Henry,  and  given  secret  instructions  to  raise  seven 
companies  of  fifty  men  each  for  the  purpose  of  attacking  the  British  post 
of  Kaskaskia.  The  expedition  set  out  in  May,  1778,  with  three  companies. 
After  the  capture  of  Kaskaskia  Clark's  force  was  increased  by  the  en- 
listment of  a  number  of  the  French  inhabitants.  The  regiment  was 
recruited  from  Virginia  in  the  spring  of  1779,  when  it  numbered  350  men. 
In  August,  1780  it  was  reduced  to  130  men.  It  was  disbanded  January  18, 
1783. 

Field  Officers 

Colonel.— George  Rogers  Clark,   1778-1781.     Commissioned  lieutenant 
colonel   in   December,    1777;  colonel  in  December,    177  8 
and    brigadier-general,    January   22,    1781.     Relieved    o 
command  July  2,  1783. 


Virginia's  soldiers  in  the  revolution.  343 

Lieutenant-Colonel. — John  Montgomery,  Dec.  1778-1783. 
Major. — Joseph  Bowman,  December  14,  1778 — August  15  (?)  1779.     Died 
in  service  August  17,  1779. 
Thomas  Quick,  or  Quirk,  August  17,  1779-1782(?) 
George  Slaughter,  1778(?)-1780(?)     Promoted  to  be  lieutenant- 
colonel.     Became  supernumerary,  December,  1781. 
William  Lynn,  or  Linn,  1778(?)-1781.     Killed  by  Indians. 
*Walker  Daniels. 
•English.     Conquest  of  the  country  northwest  of  the  River  Ohio.  1896. 


Titles. 

The  Illinois  regiment  and  the  Northwestern  Territory. 
(Virginia  magazine  of  history  and  biography,  Oct.  1893.  v.  1, 
p.  127-141). 

Includes  roll  of  officers  of  Illinois  regiment,  Lieut. -Col.  John 
Montgomery,  and  Crockett's  regiment,  Lieut. -Col.  Joseph 
Crockett;  also  list  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  soldiers, 
Illinois  regiment. 

Soldiers  in  Capt.  Joseph  Bowman's  and  Capt.  Leonard  Helms 
companies  in  Clark's  Northwestern  campaign,  1778.  (Shen- 
andoah Valley  pioneers.  T.  K.  Cartmell.  [Winchester,  Va., 
1909]     p.  104). 

Pay  roll  of  Capt.  Edward  Worthington's  company  of  cavalry, 
stationed  at  the  Illinois,  under  command  of  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clark,  commencing  June  17,  1778  and  ending  June  1,  1779. 
(William  and  Mary  college  quarterly  historical  magazine. 
Oct.  1898.  V.  7,  p.  120-121). 

The  army  led  by  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark  and  his  conquest 
of  the  Illinois,  1778-9.  A  list  of  the  officers,  non-commissioned 
officers  and  private  soldiers  constituting  the  "Illinois  regiment 
of  volunteers"  with  memoranda  of  the  land  bounty  granted  to 
each.  (Publication  no.  8  of  the  Illinois  State  historical  library. 
Transactions.     Springfield,  111.,  1904.     p.  166-178). 


344  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

Appended:  Capt.  Charloville's  volunteers;  also  A  pay  roll 
of  Capt.  Joseph  Bowman's  company  from  24  Jan.  1778. 

A  list  of  officers  of  the  Illinois  regiment,  and  of  Crockett's 
regiment,  who  have  received  land  for  their  services.  A  list  of 
officers  of  the  Illinois  regiment  who  have  not  received  lands  for 
revolutionary  services.  A  list  of  non-commissioned  officers 
and  soldiers  of  the  Illinois  regiment,  and  the  western  army, 
under  the  command  of  General  George  Rogers  Clark,  who  are 
entitled  to  bounty  in  land.  A  list  of  Captain  Francis  Charlo- 
ville's volunteers,  entitled  to  two  hundred  acres  of  land  each. 
[Richmond,  1834?] 

24p.  4".  (Document  no.  32,  appended  to  Journal  of  Virginia 
House  of  delegates,  1833-34.) 

Prefixed  is  a  report  by  J.  H.  Smith  on  the  "Illinois  claims." 

Crocketts  Regiment,     1780-1782. 

This  was  a  regiment  authorized  by  act  of  Assembly  passed  in  Decem- 
ber, 1779,  to  be  raised  for  the  defence  of  the  western  limits  of  the  state. 
The  act  provided  that  the  corps  of  infantry  under  the  command  of  Colonel 
[George]  Slaughter  should  be  attached  to  the  new  organization.  Colonel 
Joseph  Crockett  was  commissioned  to  command  the  regiment,  which 
was  ordered  to  reinforce  Colonel  George  Rogers  Clark  at  the  West. 
Crockett's  command  served  about  eighteen  months  under  Clark  in  the 
Northwest  against  the  Indians  and  in  the  unsuccessful  expedition  against 
Detroit. 

Field  Officers. 

Lieutenant-Colonel. — Joseph  Crockett,  1780 — January,  1782. 
Major.— George  Walls,  1781(?)-1783. 


Illinois  Troop  Light  Dragoons,   1779-1782   (?). 

Authorized  for  service  in  Illinois  by  act  of  Assembly  passed  at  the 
session  beginning  in  May,  1779.  The  act  provided  for  a  troop  of  thirty- 
two  men,  to  be  officered  by  a  captain,  lieutenant  and  cornet.  Lieutenant 
John  Rogers  was  commissioned  captain  of  the  troop,  which  marched  to 
join  Colonel  G.  R.  Clark  in  the  fall  of  1779.  The  troop  appears  to  hav« 
been  in  service  till  the  close  of  the  war. 


Virginia's  soldiers  in  the  revolution.  345 

Officers 

Captain.— John  Rogers,  1779-1782. 

Lieutenant. — James    Merriwether,    1779? — January    1,    1781.     Entered 

continental  service,  1781. 
Comet.— John  Thurston,  1779(?)— ? 

Titles. 

The  last  pay  abstract  of  a  troop  of  light  dragoons  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  commonwealth  of  Virginia  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  John  Rogers,  Oct.  1,  1781-Feb.  14,  1782.  (WiUiam  and 
Mary  college  quarterly  historical  magazine,  Oct.  1899.  v.  8, 
p.  103-104). 

With  record  of  Rogers'  services  in  the  Revolution. 

Convention  Guards  Regiment,  1778(?)-1781. 

This  was  a  regiment  raised  for  guarding  the  British  troops  captured 
at  Saratoga,  during  their  dentention  in  Virginia.  In  view  of  the  pros- 
pective transfer  of  the  prisoners,  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates,  on 
December  19,  1778,  passed  a  resolution  empowering  the  governor  to  raise 
a  regiment  of  600  men  to  act  as  a  guard.  On  January  9,  1779,  Congress 
adopted  a  resolution  providing  that  a  battalion  of  600  men,  properly 
officered,  should  be  raised  by  the  governor  and  council  of  Virginia  for 
the  same  purpose.  Enlistment  was  to  be  for  one  year,  on  continental 
establishment,  the  oJBicers  to  be  appointed  by  the  Virginia  authorities. 
The  regiment  appears  to  have  served  from  January,  1779  to  June  5,  1781, 
when  it  was  discharged. 

Field  Officers 

Colonel.— Francis  Taylor,  March  5,  1779— June  15,  1781. 
Lieutenant-Colonel.— Francis  Taylor,  December  24,  1778— March  5,  1779. 
William  Fontaine,  March  5,  1779T-June  15,  1781- 
Major.— William  Fontaine,  December  24,  1778— March  5,  1779. 
John  Roberts,  March  5,  1779— May  1,  1781. 

Spotswood's  Legions,  1781-1783. 

An  act  of  Assembly  passed  in  June,  1781,  authorized  the  formation  of 
two  legions,  to  consist  each  of  six  companies  of  infantry  and  one  troop  of 
cavalry  of  100  men  each.  These  were  to  serve  during  the  war,  but  ont 
to  take  the  field  or  do  duty  except  in  case  of  actual  or  threatened  invasion. 

Brigadier  General  Alexander  Spotswood  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
legions.  They  appear  to  have  served  from  the  summer  of  1781  to 
November  4,  1783,  when  they  were  disbanded  by  the  governor. 


346  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 


Field  Officers  of  First  Legion. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  commanding. — John  Taylor,  1781 — 
Major.— William  Lindsay,  1781— 
Robert  Forsyth,  1781— 

Field  Officers  of  Second  Legion. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  commanding. — Everard  Meade,  1781- 
Major. 


THE   RANDOLPH   MANUSCRIPT,  347 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT. 


Virginia  Seventeenth  Century  Records 


From  the  Original  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society 


Commissions  and  Instructions  to  the  Earl  of  Orkney  for  the 
Government  of  Virginia 


(Continued) 


83.  That  we  may  be  the  better  inform'd  of  the  Trade  of 
our  said  Colony,  You  are  to  take  especial  Care  that  Due  en- 
terics be  made  in  all  Ports  of  our  said  Colony  of  all  Goods  and 
Commodities  their  Species  and  Quantities  Imported  or  Ex- 
ported from  thence,  with  the  Names  Burden  and  Guns  of  all 
Ships  Exporting  and  Importing  the  same,  also  the  Names  of 
their  Commanders  and  likewise  expressing  from  and  to  what 
Place  the  said  Ships  do  come  and  go  (a  Copy  whereof  the  Naval 
Officer  in  each  respective  District  is  to  furnish  you  with)  and 
you  are  to  transmit  the  Same  unto  us  Our  Commissioners  of 
our  Treasury  or  our  high  Treasurer  for  the  time  being,  and  to 
our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  Quarterly,  and 
Duplicates  thereof  by  the  Next  Conveyance. 


348  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

84.  You  are  to  take  especial  Care  all  Tobacco  ship'd  in 
Virginia  from  what  part  soever  do  come  they  pay  Virginia 
Duties. 

85.  You  are  likewise  to  Examine  what  Rates  and  Duties 
are  Charged  and  Payable  upon  any  Goods  Imported  and  Ex- 
ported within  otir  Colony  of  Virginia,  whether  of  the  Growth 
or  Manufacture  of  our  said  Colony  or  otherwise  and  to  use 
your  best  Endeavours  for  the  Improvement  of  the  Trade  in 
those  Parts. 

86.  AND  WHEREAS  Orders  have  been  given  for  the  Com- 
missionating  of  fit  Persons  to  be  Officers  of  our  Admiralty  and 
Customs  in  our  Several  Plantations  in  America,  and  it  is  of 
great  importance  to  the  Trade  of  this  Kingdom,  and  to  the  wel- 
fare of  Our  Plantations  that  illegal  Trade  be  every  where  dis- 
couraged, you  are  therefore  to  take  especial  Care  that  the  Acts 
of  Trade  and  Navigation  be  duly  put  in  execution,  and  in  Order 
thereunto  you  are  to  give  Constant  Protection  and  all  due  In- 
couragement  to  the  Officers  of  our  Admiralty  and  Customs  in 
the  Execution  of  their  Respective  Offices  and  Trusts. 

87.  AND  WE  FURTHER  WILL  AND  REQUIRE  You 
to  be  aiding  and  Assisting  unto  such  Persons  as  are  or  shall  be 
appointed  by  our  Commissioners  of  Our  Treasury  to  be  Agent 
in  the  West  Indies  or  such  other  Agent  as  shall  be  appointed  in 
his  Room  in  the  discharge  of  his  Office  according  to  such  In- 
structions as  he  hath  receiv'd  from  our  Principal  Commission- 
ers for  that  Purpose,  also  for  preventing  Imbezelments  and 
Recovering  of  Prize  Goods  which  may  happen  to  be  Imbezel'd 
or  Conceal'd,  as  well  as  the  Execution  of  all  Orders  to  him  or 
them  directed  in  Relation  to  Prizes  by  any  Court  of  Admiralty 
Legally  Established  by  Our  Commissioners  of  our  Admiralty  in 
our  said  Plantations  And  you  are  likewise  to  Transmit  unto 
Our  Commissioners  of  our  Treasury  from  time  to  time  exact 
Accounts  of  all  Occiirances  concerning  Prizes  that  happen  to 
be  brought  into  that  our  Colony  of  Virginia  under  your  Govern- 
ment in  the  Same  Manner  as  you  are  required  to  do  in  other 
Matters  under  your  Care. 


THE    RANDOLPH    MANUSCRIPT.  349 

88.  AND  WHEREAS  We  have  been  Inform'd  that  the  Fees 
for  the  Condemnation  of  a  Prize  Ship  in  our  Cotirts  of  Admiralty 
in  the  Plantations  are  considerably  greater  than  those  demanded 
on  the  like  occasions  in  our  High  Court  of  Admiralty  here, 
And  Whereas  we  are  willing  that  our  Subjects  in  the  Planta- 
tions shou'd  have  the  same  ease  in  the  Obtaining  Condemna- 
tions of  Prizes  there  as  in  this  Kingdom.  You  are  to  Signifie 
our  Will  and  Pleasure  to  the  Officers  of  our  Admiralty  Court  in 
Virginia  that  they  do  not  presume  to  demand  or  Exact  other 
Fees  than  what  are  taken  in  this  Kingdom  which  amotmt  to 
about  Ten  Pounds  for  the  Condemnation  of  each  Prize  accord- 
ing to  the  List  of  Fees  herewith  deliver 'd  to  you. 

89.  You  are  from  time  to  time  to  give  an  x\ccount  as  before 
directed  what  Strength  your  bordering  Neighbors  have  be  they 
Indians  or  others,  by  Sea  and  Land,  and  of  the  Condition  of  their 
Plantations  and  what  Correspondence  you  do  keep  with  them. 

90.  You  shall  take  Especial  Care  that  God  Almighty  be 
devoutly  and  duly  served  throughout  your  Government,  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer  as  by  Law  established  read  each 
Simday  and  Holy  day  and  the  Blessed  Sacraments  administer'd 
according  to  the  rites  of  the  Church  of  England. 

91.  You  shall  be  carefull  that  the  Churches  already  built 
there  be  well  and  Orderly  kept,  and  that  more  be  built  as  the 
Colony  shall  by  the  Blessing  of  God  be  improved,  and  that  be- 
sides a  Competent  Maintenance  to  be  Assign'd  to  the  Ministers 
of  each  Orthodox  Church  a  convenient  House  be  built  at  the 
Common  charge  for  each  Minister  and  a  competent  Portion  of 
Glebe  Assign'd  him. 

92.  And  You  are  to  take  Care  that  the  Parishes  be  so 
bounded  and  Settled  as  you  shall  find  most  convemient  for  the 
accomplishing  this  good  Work. 

93.  You  are  not  to  refer  any  Minister  to  any  Ecclesiastical 
Business  in  that  our  Colony  without  a  Certificate  from  the 
Right  Reverend  Father  in  God  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London  of 
his  being  conformable  to  the  Doctrine  and  Discipline  of  the 
Church  of  England,  and  of  a  good  Life  and  Conversation,  and 
if  any  Person  preferr'd  already  to  a  Benefice  shall  appear  to 
you  to  give  Scandal,  cither  by  his  Doctrine  or  Manners,  you 


350  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

are  to  use  the  proper  and  usual  Means  for  removal  of  him  and 
to  supply  the  Vacancy  in  such  Manner  as  we  have  directed. 

94.  You  are  to  give  Order  forthwith  (if  the  same  be  not  al- 
ready done)  that  every  Orthodox  Minister  within  your  Govern- 
ment be  One  of  the  Vestry  in  his  respective  Parish,  and  that  no 
Vestry  be  held  without  him  except  in  Case  of  Sickness,  or  that 
after  Notice  of  a  Vestry  Summon'd  he  omit  to  come. 

95.  You  are  to  Enquire  whether  there  be  any  Ministers 
within  your  Government,  who  Preaches  and  Administers  the 
Sacraments  in  any  Orthodox  Church  or  Chappel  without  being 
in  due  Orders,  and  to  give  an  Account  thereof  to  the  said  Lord 
Bishop  of  London. 

96.  And  to  the  end  the  Ecclesiastical  Jurisdiction  of  the 
said  Lord  Bishop  of  London  may  take  Place  in  that  Our  Colony 
so  far  as  conveniently  may  be.  We  do  think  fit  that  you  give  all 
coimtenance  and  encouragement  to  the  exercise  of  the  same, 
excepting  only  the  Collating  to  Benefices,  granting  Licences 
for  Marriages  and  Probates  of  Wills,  which  we  have  reserved  to 
you  our  Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  of  our  said  Colony 
for  the  time  being. 

97.  We  do  Further  direct  that  no  School  Master  be  hence- 
forth Permitted  to  come  from  this  Kingdom  and  to  keep  School 
within  our  said  Colony  without  the  Licence  of  the  said  Lord 
Bishop  of  London,  and  that  no  other  Person  now  there  or  that 
Shall  come  from  other  Parts  be  admitted  to  keep  School  with- 
out your  Licence  first  Obtain'd. 

98.  And  you  are  to  take  especial  Care  that  a  Table  of  Mar- 
riages Establish'd  by  the  Cannons  of  the  Church  of  England  be 
hung  up  in  every  Orthodox  Church,  and  duly  observ'd  &  you  are 
to  Endeavour  to  get  a  Law  pass'd  in  the  Assembly  of  that 
Colony  (if  not  already  done)  for  the  Strict  Osbervation  of  the 
said  Table. 

99.  You  are  to  take  Care  that  Drunkenness  and  Debauch- 
ery, Swearing  and  Blasphemy  be  discountenanced  and  Pun- 
ished. And  for  the  further  Discountenance  of  Vice  and  en- 
couragement of  Vertue  and  good  living  (that  by  such  Examples 
the  Infidels  may  be  invited  and  desire  to  Partake  of  the  Chris- 
tian Religion)     You  are  not  to  Admit  any  Person  to  Publick 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  351 

Trusts  and  Employments  in  our  said  Colony  whose  ill  fame 
and  Conversation  may  Occasion  Scandal. 

100.  And  you  are  to  Suppress  the  Ingrossing  of  Commod- 
itys  as  tending  to  the  prejudice  of  that  freedom  which  Trade  and 
Commerce  ought  to  have  and  to  Settle  Such  Orders  and  Regu- 
lations therein  with  Advice  of  our  said  Coimcil  as  may  be  most 
Acceptable  to  the  generality  of  the  Inhabitants. 

101.  And  Upon  Several  Representations  made  concerning  a 
Trade  with  the  Indian  Natives,  it  has  been  thought  fit  to  per- 
mit a  free  Trade  between  our  Subjects  of  Virginia  and  the  In- 
dians, and  We  being  willing  to  continue  the  same  Permission 
to  all  our  Subjects  or  that  Colony,  You  are  therefore  to  Signify 
the  same  to  the  next  Assembly,  and  to  give  them  to  understand 
that  out  of  our  great  Care  for  the  Welfare  of  that  Colony,  We 
have  preferr'd  the  Particular  Benefit  of  our  Subjects  before  any 
other  Advantage  that  might  accrue  unto  us  by  restraining  that 
Trade  with  the  Indians,  Whereof  we  expect  they  shoul'd  have  a 
due  Sence  and  provide  by  some  Means  for  the  better  Support 
of  the  Government. 

102.  You  are  to  give  all  due  Encouragement  and  Invita- 
tion to  Merchants  and  others  who  shall  bring  Trade  to  oiir 
Colony  or  any  way  contribute  to  the  Advantage  thereof  and  in 
Particular  to  the  Royal  Affrican  Company. 

103.  And  as  we  are  willing  to  recommend  unto  the  said 
Company  that  the  said  Colony  may  have  a  constant  and  Suffi- 
cient Supply  of  Merchantable  Negroes  at  Moderate  Rates  in 
Money  or  Commodities  so  you  are  to  take  especial  Care  that 
Payment  be  duly  made  &  within  a  competent  time  according 
to  their  Agreements. 

104.  And  whereas  the  said  Company  have  frequently  great 
Simis  of  Money  owing  to  them  in  our  Plantations  in  America, 
they  have  been  much  hindered  in  the  recovery  of  their  Just 
debts  there,  and  discouraged  in  their  Trade  by  the  too  fre- 
quent Adjournments  of  Courts,  and  it  being  absolutely  nec- 
essary that  all  Obstructions  in  the  Course  of  Justice  be  Ef- 
fectually remov'd,  You  are  to  take  Care  that  the  Courts  of 
Justice  be  duly  and  frequently  held  in  our  Colony  and  Dominion 
imder  your  Government,  so  that  all  our  Subjects  in  the  said 


352  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Colony,  and  Particularly  the  Royal  African  Company  may 
enjoy  the  Benefit  thereof,  and  not  receive  any  undue  hinderance 
in  the  recovery  of  their  Just  Debts. 

105.  And  you  are  to  talce  care  that  there  be  no  Trading 
from  Virginia  to  any  Place  in  Africa  within  the  Charter  of  the 
Royal  African  Company  otherwise  than  prescribed  by  Law. 

106.  And  we  do  further  expressly  Command  and  require 
you  to  give  unto  us,  &  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  &  Plan- 
tations an  Account  every  half  Year  of  what  Number  of  Negroes 
the  said  Colony  is  Supply 'd  wdth,  that  is  what  Number  by  the 
African  Company,  and  what  by  Seperate  Traders,  and  at  what 
rates  Sold. 

107.  You  are  likewise  from  time  to  time  to  give  unto  us 
and  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  as  afore- 
said an  Account  of  the  Wants  and  Defects  of  our  said  Colony, 
what  are  the  Chief  Products  thereof,  new  Improvements  are 
made  therein  by  the  Industry  of  the  Inhabitants  or  Planters,  and 
what  further  Improvements  you  conceive  may  be  made,  or 
Advantages  gain'd  by  Trade,  &  which  way  we  may  contribute 
thereimto. 

108.  You  are  not  to  grant  Commissions  of  Mark  or  Re- 
prizal  against  any  Prince  or  State  or  their  Subjects  in  Amity 
with  us,  to  any  Person  whatsoever  without  our  Special  Com- 
mand. 

109.  Whereas  great  Inconveniencies  do  happen  by  Mer- 
chants Ships  and  other  Vessels  in  the  Plantations  wearing  the 
Colours  bom  by  our  Ships  of  War  under  Pretence  of  Com- 
missions granted  to  them  by  the  Governors  of  the  said  Planta- 
tions, and  that  by  Trading  under  those  Colours  not  only 
amongst  our  Own  Subjects,  but  also  those  of  other  Princes  and 
States  and  committing  divers  Irregularities,  they  do  very  much 
dishonour  our  Service,  For  prevention  whereof  you  are  to 
oblige  the  Commanders  of  all  such  Ships  to  which  you  shall 
grant  Commissions  to  wear  no  other  Jack  than  according  to 
the  Sample  here  described,  that  is  to  say,  such  as  is  worn  by  our 
Ships  of  War  with  a  distinction  of  a  White  Escutcheon  in  the 
middle  thereof  and  that  the  said  Mark  of  distinction  may  ex- 
tend itself  to  one  half  of  the  Depth  of  the  Jack  and  one  third 
of  the  Fly  thereof. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  363 

110.  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  is  That  Appeals  be  permitted 
to  be  made  in  Cases  of  Error  from  the  Courts  in  our  said  Colony 
unto  you  and  our  Council  there  in  General  Court  Sc  in  Your 
Absence  from  that  our  Colony  to  the  Commander  in  Chief  for 
the  time  being,  and  the  said  Council  in  Civil  Causes,  where- 
in such  of  our  said  Council  as  shall  be  at  that  time  Judges  of 
the  Court  from  whence  such  Appeals  shall  be  made  to  You  our 
Governor  and  Council,  or  to  the  Commander  in  Chief  for  the 
time  being,  and  Council  in  General  Court  as  aforesaid  shall  not 
be  admitted  a  Vote  upon  the  said  Appeal,  but  they  may  Never- 
theless be  present  at  the  hearing  thereof  to  give  the  reasons  of 
the  Judgment  given  by  them  in  the  Cause  wherein  such  Appeal 
shall  be  made. 

111.  And  Inasmuch  as  it  may  not  be  fit  that  Appeals  be 
too  frequently  and  for  too  Small  a  Value  brought  unto  Our 
Governor  and  Council,  as  aforesaid.  You  shall  therefore  with 
the  Advice  of  our  said  Council  propose  a  Law  to  be  pass'd 
wherein  the  Method  and  Limitation  of  Appeals  unto  Our  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  may  be  Settled  and  Restrain'd  in  such  Man- 
ner as  shall  be  most  Convenient  and  easy  to  Our  Subjects  in 
Virginia. 

112.  And  if  eiiher  Party  shall  not  rest  Satisfy 'd  with  the 
Judgement  of  you  or  the  Commander  in  Chief  for  the  time 
being  &  Coimcil  as  aforesaid,  they  may  then  Appeal  unto  Us 
in  Our  Privy  Council,  provided  the  Sum  or  Value  so  appeal'd 
for  unto  us  do  exceed  £300  Sterl  and  that  such  Appeal  be  made 
within  one  fortnight  after  Sentence  and  good  Security  given 
by  the  Appellant  that  he  will  Effectually  prosecute  the  same, 
and  Answer  the  Condemnation  as  also  pay  such  Costs  as.  shall 
be  awarded  by  us  in  Case  the  Sentence  of  you  the  Governor  or 
Commander  in  Chief  for  the  time  being  and  Council  be  Affirmed, 
&  provided  also  that  Execution  be  not  Suspended  by  reason  of 
any  such  Appeal  unto  Us. 

113.  You  are  also  to  Permit  Appeals  unto  Us  in  Council 
in  all  Cases  of  Fines  imposed  for  Misdemeanors,  provided  the 
Fines  so  impos'd  amount  to,  or  Exceed  the  Value  of  £200  the 
Appellant  first  giving  good  Security  that  he  will  Effectually 
prosecute  the  same,   and  Answer  the  Condemnation  of   the 


354  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Sentence  by  which  such  Fine  was  impos'd  in  Virginia  in  case 
the  said  Sentence  shall  be  coniirm'd. 

114.  You  are  for  the  better  Administration  of  Justice  to 
Endeavour  to  get  a  Law  pass'd  (if  not  already  done)  wherein 
shall  be  Set  the  Value  of  Men's  Estates  either  in  Goods  or 
Lands  under  which  they  shall  not  be  capable  of  Serving  as 
Jurors. 

115.  You  are  to  take  Care  that  no  Courts  of  Judicature  be 
adjourned  but  upon  good  Grounds,  and  whereas  Complaint 
hath  been  made  that  the  Orders  of  Coiut  are  entered  in  the 
Absence  of  the  Magistrates  and  sometimes  penn'd  in  Private 
at  the  Magistrates  House,  you  are  to  take  care  to  prevent  the 
said  abuses,  and  particiilarly  that  no  Orders  of  any  Court  of 
Judicature  be  enter'd  or  allow'd  which  shall  not  be  first  read 
and  approv'd  of  by  the  Magistrates  in  Open  Coiirt,  which  Rule 
you  are  in  like  manner  to  see  observ'd  with  relation  to  the  Pro- 
ceedings in  Our  Council  of  Virginia  and  that  all  Orders  there 
made  be  first  read  and  approved  in  Council  before  they  are 
enter'd  in  the  Council  Books. 

116.  You  shall  Endeavour  to  get  a  Law  pass'd  (if  not  al- 
ready done)  for  the  restraining  of  any  Inhuman  Severities 
which  by  ill  Masters  or  Overseers  may  be  used  towards  their 
Christian  Servants,  and  their  Slaves,  and  that  Provision  be 
made  therein  that  the  Wilfull  killing  of  Indians  and  Negroes 
may  be  punish't  with  Death,  and  that  a  fit  Penalty  be  impos'd 
for  the  Maiming  of  them.  And  you  are  also  with  the  Assistance 
of  the  Council  and  Assembly  to  find  out  the  best  Means  to 
facilitate  and  encourage  the  Conversion  of  Negroes  and  Indians 
to  the  Christian  Religion. 

117.  And  whereas  an  Agreement  has  been  formerly  made 
with  the  Indians  of  Virginia  and  of  New  York  for  their  Peace- 
able living  with  Our  Subjects  and  Submission  to  Our  Govern- 
ment, We  do  hereby  approve  the  Same,  and  do  require  you 
to  endeavour  as  much  as  in  you  lyes  that  the  said  Agreement  be 
Punctually  observ'd  and  renew'd  if  it  shall  be  Necessary,  as 
conducing  to  the  Welfare  of  our  Colony  under  your  Government. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT,  355 

118.  You  are  to  Endeavour  with  the  Assistance  of  our 
Council  to  provide  for  the  raising  of  Stocks  and  building  Pub- 
Hck  Warehouses  in  convenient  places  for  the  employing  of  Poor 
and  indigent  People. 

119.  You  are  to  propose  an  Act  to  be  pass'd  in  the  Assembly 
wherby  the  Creditors  of  Persons  becoming  Bankrupts  in  this 
Kingdom  and  having  Estates  in  Virginia  may  be  reliev'd  and 
Satisfy'd  for  the  Debts  owing  to  them. 

120.  In  Case  of  Distress  of  any  other  of  our  Plantations 
You  shall  upon  the  Application  of  the  Respective  Governors 
thereof  to  you,  Assist  them  with  what  Aid  the  Condition  of 
Our  Colony  under  Your  Government  can  Spare. 

121.  You  are  to  take  Care  by  and  with  the  Advice  and  As- 
sistance of  our  Council  that  such  Prisons  there  as  want  Repara- 
tion be  forthwith  repair'd  and  put  into  and  kept  in  such  a 
Condition  as  may  Sufficiently  Secure  the  Prisoners  that  are  or 
shall  be  there  in  Custody. 

122.  And  for  as  much  as  we  have  thought  fit  for  the  Dignity 
of  the  Government  that  a  House  be  built  for  our  Governor  or 
Commander  in  Chief,  for  defraying  of  which  Expence  a  Levy 
has  been  made,  You  are  to  hasten  the  Building  and  fitting  up 
such  a  House  if  not  already  done. 

123.  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  is,  that  you  do  take  to  your- 
self as  Governor  Two  Thousand  Pounds  Sterl.  per  Annum  by 
Quarterly  Payments,  and  shall  also  Cause  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  Revenues  of  our  said  Colony  to  the  Councelors  &  other 
Judges  and  Officers  as  well  Civil  as  Military,  and  to  the  Mar- 
shal, Clerk  of  the  Assembly  Gunner  and  Matrosses  the  Sev- 
eral Salaries  and  allowances  formerly  paid,  or  such  other  reas- 
onable Ones  as  you  with  Advice  of  Our  Council  there  shall 
think  requisite  a  true  Account  whereof  you  shall  from  time  to 
time  transmit  unto  the  Commissioners  of  Our  Treasury  or  Our 
High  Treasurer  for  the  time  being,  and  to  Our  Commissioners 
for  Trade  and  Plantations. 

124.  Provided  always  that  you  do  not  dispose  of  any  Part 
of  our  Quitrents,  nor  Suffer  the  same  to  be  issued  out  upon  any 
Occasion  untill  upon  your  Certifying  to  us  the  Value  of  what 
shall  remain  thereof  from  time  to  time  in  Our  Treasury  or  be 


356  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

due  Unto  Us  we  shall  Order  the  Same  to  be  dispos'd  of  as  we 
shall  find  Occasion  for  our  Service. 

125.  And  for  the  better  improving  the  Value  of  Our  Quit- 
rents,  You  are  to  take  Care  they  be  not  only  duly  Collected, 
but  they  be  Sold  every  Year  Openly  by  Inch  of  Candle  to  the 
highest  Bidder  in  the  respective  Coimty  Courts,  and  that  due 
Notice  be  given  of  the  time  and  Place  of  any  such  intended 
Sale  in  such  Manner  as  may  make  it  most  Publickly  known 
to  all  People  a  Competent  time  before  hand. 

126.  Whereas  upon  considering  the  Entries  of  our  Custom 
house  here  in  this  Kingdom  with  the  Payment  of  the  two  Shill- 
ings per  Hogsh<^  on  Tobacco,  and  other  Duties  and  Impositions 
due  unto  us  in  Virginia  there  has  been  certain  Information 
given  of  great  Frauds  and  Abuses  both  in  Payment  thereof  by 
Masters  of  Ships  and  others,  and  in  the  Collection  by  Our  Ofifi- 
cers.  You  are  to  use  all  Lawfull  Means  for  the  Prevention  there- 
of and  for  the  Improvement  of  our  said  Revenues.  And  where- 
as such  Abuses  cannot  be  committed  without  apparent  Neg- 
ligence of  the  Collectors  or  their  connivance  with  the  said 
Masters  of  Ships  and  other  Persons,  You  are  to  take  great 
Care  with  the  Advice  of  Our  Council  in  appointing  fit  and  duly 
Qualify 'd  Persons  for  the  Collecting  of  those  duties  and  the 
like  for  the  Employment  of  Naval  Officers. 

127.  You  shall  not  commit  the  Care  of  those  different  Em- 
ployments to  One  and  the  same  Person,  nor  any  of  them  unto 
Persons  much  concern 'd  in  Trade  who  may  be  apt  thereby  to  be 
byassed  from  their  respective  Duties,  nor  unto  the  Members 
of  our  said  Council. 

128.  You  shall  take  Care  that  each  of  the  Persons  appointed 
by  you  to  the  said  Employments  (as  well  Naval  Officers  as 
Collectors)  be  sworn  to  Execute  faithfully  and  diligently  their 
Respective  Offices  in  their  Own  Persons  and  not  by  Deputies 
imless  in  Cases  of  Absolute  Necessity,  and  that  those  Deputies 
be  then  likewise  sworn  to  the  faithfiill  and  diligent  execution 
of  their  respective  Offices.  And  that  each  of  the  said  Officers 
or  their  Deputies  be  required  accordingly  to  give  their  Attend- 
ance at  such  certain  times  and  Places  as  you  with  the  Advice 
of  our  said  Council  shall  direct. 


THE  RANDOLPH  MANUSCRIPT.  357 

129.  You  are  Strictly  to  charge  and  Command  them  and 
every  of  them  in  our  Name  to  be  more  carefull  and  diHgent  for 
the  future,  under  Penalty  of  the  forfeiture  of  our  respective 
Places  by  your  putting  others  in  their  Stead  on  the  first  offence, 
and  of  our  highest  displeasure,  and  you  are  from  time  to  time 
to  give  Us  Out  Commissioners  of  our  Treasury  or  high  Treas- 
urer for  the  time  being,  and  to  Our  Commissioners  for  Trade 
and  Plantations  a  Particular  Account  of  your  Proceedings 
therein,  and  of  the  Duties  and  Impositions  Collected  and  dis- 
pos'd  of  pursuant  to  former  directions  in  that  behalf 

130.  And  whereas  Complaints  have  been  made  of  Several 
undue  Practices  in  the  Office  of  Secretary  or  Register  of  that 
Colony  by  the  Clerks  or  other  Persons  employ'd  therein.  You 
are  to  make  Inspection  into  what  has  been  the  State  and  Man- 
agement of  the  said  Office,  and  Report  to  Us  and  to  Our  Com- 
missioners for  Trade  and  Plantations  how  you  find  the  Same, 
together  with  your  opinion  by  what  Methods  any  former  Mis- 
managements may  for  the  future  be  best  Prevented  and  in  the 
meanwhile  to  take  all  possible  care  that  the  Records  of  the 
said  Office  be  well  and  faithfully  kept,  and  in  Order  theretmto 
that  not  only  the  Secretary  or  Register  himself  but  his  Clerks 
also  be  under  Oath  for  the  due  Execution  of  the  trust  repos'd 
in  them,  and  that  they  accordingly  give  Sufficient  Security 
for  their  faithful  performance. 

131.  Whereas  Our  Council  of  Virginia  has  formerly  made 
Complaints  that  the  Lord  Baltimore  hath  insisted  on  a  pre- 
tended Right  to  the  whole  River  of  Potomack,  which  did  very 
much  discourage  the  Merchants  and  Masters  of  Ships  trading 
to  that  our  Colony,  You  are  to  Assert  our  Rights  in  those 
Parts,  &  to  take  care  that  the  Trade  of  our  Subjects  be  not 
disturb 'd  by  the  said  pretences,  or  any  other  whatsoever. 

132.  Whereas  We  have  been  pleas'd  by  our  Commission 
to  direct  that  in  Case  of  your  Death  or  Absence  from  our  said 
Colony,  &  in  Case  there  be  at  that  time  no  Person  upon  the 
Place  Commission 'd  or  appointed  by  us  to  be  our  Lieutenant 
Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  the  Eldest  Councellor  whose 
Name  is  first  placed  in  our  Instructions  to  you,  and  who  shall 
be  at  the  time  of  your  Death  or  Absence  residing  within  our 


368  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

said  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia,  shall  take  upon  him 
the  Administration  of  the  Government  and  Execute  our  said 
Commission  and  Instructions  and  the  Several  Powers  and 
Authorities  therein  contain'd,  in  the  manner  thereby  directed. 
It  is  nevertheless  Our  Express  Will  and  Pleasure  that  in  such 
Case  the  said  President  shall  forbear  to  pass  any  Acts  but 
what  are  Immediately  necessary  for  the  Peace  and  Welfare  of 
our  said  Colony  'vv'ithout  our  Particular  Order  for  that  Purpose. 


VIRGINIA  IN  1677.  359 


MRGINIA  IN  1677.* 

(Abstracts  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury,  and  copies  in  the  McDonald 

and  De  Jamette  Papers,  Virginia  State  Library.) 

(Continued) 

Bacon's  Rebellion. 

Petition  of  Nicholas  Prynn. 

March  19,  1676-7. 

Master  of  the  Richard  and  EUzabeth  of  London,  riding  in 
James  River  to  the  Commissioners  for  Virginia — 

For  restitution  of  goods  to  the  value  of  £265  sterlg:  con- 
signed by  Alderman  Booth  &  owners  of  said  ship  to  Wm.  Himt 
their  factor  in  Virginia,  but  seized  by  Lt.  Col.  Edward  Hill, 
under  pretence  of  a  warrant  from  the  Governor.  With  Deposi- 
tion annexed  &  letter  of  Colonel  Thos.  Ballard  about  same 
(Abstract). 

(Colonial  Papers.     3  pp.) 

The  papers  in  the  present  instalment  relate  to  the  proceedings  of  the 
Commissioners  sent  from  England  to  suppress  Bacon's  Rebellion,  and  to 
the  quarrels  with  Governor  Berkeley  and  the  General  Assembly,  still 
greatly  under  his  influence.  The  Commissioners  resided  at  Swann's 
Point,  the  home  of  Col.  Thomas  Swann,  on  the  south  side  of  the  river 
near  Jamestown.  On  one  of  their  visits  to  Berkeley  not  long  before  he 
sailed  for  England,  they  charged  that  they  had  been  sent  from  Green 
Spring,  his  residence,  to  the  river  bank  in  a  coach  driven  by  the  Common 
hangman.  Governor  and  Lady  Berkeley  vehemently  denied  that  they 
had  instigated  this  insult. 

William  Hartwell  against  whom  several  petitions  were  directed,  was  a 
brother  of  Henry  Hartwell,  member  of  the  Council,  and  was  himself  the 
captain  of  Berkeley's  body-guard  during  Bacon's  Rebellion.  He  had 
issue:  (1)  Henry,  who  died  without  issue;  (2)  William,  who  had  an 
only  child,  Mary,  who  married  William  Macon  on  Sept.  24,  1719;  (3) 
Mary,  who  married  George  Marable  (high  sheriff  of  James  City  Co., 
1695);  (4)  John,  will  proved  in  Surry  Co.,  May  19,  1714,  names  his  wife 
Elizabeth  (who  afterwards  married  Stith  Boiling,  of  Surry  Co.),  daughter 
Elizabeth  (who  married  Richard  Cocke),  Uncle  Thomas  Rogers,  friend 
Benjamin  Howard,  and  cousins,  John  Drummond,  George  Marable,  Jr, 
and  Henry  Hartwell  Marable. 


360  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Swann's  Point,  March  21,  1676-7. 
The  Commiss'"  of  Virginia  to  Gov.  Berkeley.  Having 
complied  with  the  Commission  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  "that  the 
"Country  might  well  perceive  we  come  not  in  the  least  to 
"countenance  but  to  try  and  condemn  criminals"  but  cannot 
comply  with  his  letter  desiring  their  further  sitting  on  the  same 
occasion  without  neglect  of  more  immediate  service  of  his  Maj. 
Beg  him  to  be  mindful  of  emergent  matters  that  have  long  been 
before  him  and  are  yet  unanswered  and  that  he  will  make  it  his 
present  care  to  make  out  a  particular  account  in  writing  of  all 
seizures,  compositions  fines  and  forfeitures  which  by  the  late 
Rebellion  devolve  to  the  Crown  without  any  diminution  con- 
cealment or  embezzlement,  of  all  Criminals  im.peached  con- 
victed sentenced  &  executed  as  well  before  as  since  our  arrival 
in  Virginia  whereof  a  strict  account  will  be  exacted  at  his  return 
to  England.     3  pp.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp   125-7.) 

1676-7,  March  ?  to  follow  21st. 
Mem:  by  Sam  Wiseman  (Clerk  to  the  Commiss'""*  for 
Virginia).  That  no  answer  was  returned  to  the  preceding 
letter,  neither  did  Sir  W.  Berkeley  vouchsafe  any  more  letters 
to  the  Commiss'"^  till  the  occasion  of  the  scandalous  postilion — 
The  Commiss'"^  seeing  Sir  W.  Berkeley  would  not  comply  with 
their  request  caused  Wiseman  to  draw  up  a  Commission  directed 
to  Lieut.  Col.  George  Jordan  and  Major  Theophilus  Hone  to 
empower  them  to  inquire  into  the  estates  and  forfeitures  of 
Delinquents,  which  during  the  late  Rebellion  devolved  to  the 
Crown,  which  was  accordingly  done  and  an  account  upon  oath 
taken  of  the  same.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp  128-9.) 

Swann's  Point,  March  22,  1676-7. 
The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Watkins — Are 
now  upon  preparing  their  intended  despatch  for  England  by 
Capt.  Grantham  next  week,  but  take  this  opportunity  to  give 
this  general  advice :  that  the  face  of  things  is  much  amended 
since  their  arrival  and  they  hope  by  degrees  this  poor  Country 


VIRGINIA  IN  1677.  361 

will  recover  its  former  peace  and  prosperity.  There  is  a  general 
submission  of  the  whole  Colony  and  a  joyful  resentment  of  his 
Maj.  royal  favour  &  compassion.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81  pp.  130-1.) 

Swann's  Point,  March  25,  1676-7. 
Col.  Fra.  Moryson  to  Lady  Berkeley — In  favour  of  Jones 
a  poor  condemned  person  whose  ignorance  chiefly  led  him  from 
his  allegiance  and  whose  loyalty  first  brought  him  hither  for 
refuge — Does  not  find  he  was  a  bloody  malicious  rebel  but 
seduced  by  the  artifice  of  others — Doubts  not  she  will  intercede 
with  the  Gov""  in  behalf  of  this  poor  unfortunate  \\Tetch.  (Ab 
stract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp  178-9.) 

March  25,  1677. 
Lady  Berkeley  to  Col.  Moryson — There  needs  only  his 
opinion  in  the  case  of  Jones  to  make  the  Governor  consent  to 
it  and  he  may  be  pleased  to  assure  Jones'  friends  that  Jones  shall 
be  pardoned.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  180-1.) 

Swann's  Point,  James  River,  March  27,  1677. 
The  Commiss"  for  Virginia  to  Secretary  Coventry — 
Altho'  the  Assembly  have  sat  a  whole  month  they  have  not  pro- 
ceeded to  answer  the  joint  letter  of  the  Commiss" — Have  sat 
together  on  the  Commission  of  Oyer  &  Terminer  both  at  the 
trial  &  condemnation  of  seven  or  eight  of  the  most  notorious 
criminals  and  openly  advised  to  have  them  executed  in  their 
own  respective  Counties — nor  have  they  been  wanting  by  all 
means  to  make  the  people  rightly  apprehensive  of  his  Maj. 
most  transcendant  acts  of  favour  and  indulgence  to  his  oppressed 
and  seduced  subjects,  which  have  been  generally  received  with 
suitable  impressions  of  joy — Good  &  timely  effects  of  his  Maj. 
Proclamation  and  other  gracious  acts  of  Mercy  &  Pardon — 
Bacon's  death  was  not  pretence  enough  to  frustrate  &  stifle 
this  Proclamation  or  suspend  the  punishment  of  it,  so  long  as 
Lawrence  a  Colonel  and  grand  accomplice  of  Bacon's,  a  most 


362  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

stubborn  desperate  &  resolved  Rebel  (with  others  fit  to  head  a 
new  faction)  is  still  out,  but  rather  that  Berkeley  might  impose 
on  the  ignorant  his  own  terms  and  conditions  as  nevertheless 
he  has  endeavoured  to  do — They  have  been  mistaken  or  de- 
ceived in  their  former  character  of  Berkeley:  he  has  since 
appeared  much  contrary  to  his  first  professions — While  Berkeley 
continues  Governor  upon  the  place,  things  will  never  be  put 
into  that  peaceable  posture  and  happy  composure  desired  &  by 
the  Comm"  endeav**  for  it  is  his  only  artifice  to  persuade  the 
people  that  Col.  Jeffreys  is  but  his  Deputy  and  that  he  shall 
next  year  return  Governor  again — The  General  Grievances 
like  to  come  within  a  very  narrow  compass — that  of  the  Salary 
at  this  time  tmder  the  Assembly's  consiiltation  and  redress; 
the  main  Grievances  chiefly  concern  Fort  money  &  other  public 
accounts  and  levies  of  this  Colony  proper  also  for  redress  of  the 
Assembly — Complain  of  Berkeleys  studied  evasions  &  his 
interrupting  and  diverting  the  course  of  their  proceedings  and 
the  ill  effects ;  also  of  his  illegal  and  arbitrary  proceedings  as  to 
seizures  of  estates  of  persons  not  convicted  of  any  crime :  they 
are  ptirsued  every  day  with  petitions  &  complaints  of  this 
nattue.  They  declared  their  opinion  in  open  cotirt  that  the 
Country  might  perceive  they  did  not  combine  with  or  connive 
at  such  unwarrantable  practises — Have  heard  he  hath  com- 
pounded several  treasons  &c.  for  hogsheads  of  tobacco,  cattle 
&c — Hope  this  candid  relation  may  not  be  mistaken  at  home  as 
if  there  were  any  feuds  or  differences  between  them  &  the 
Governor — The  gaol  is  now  almost  clear,  the  Governor  having 
condemned  some  and  pardoned  and  transported  others.  Com- 
plain, as  pernicious  to  his  Maj.  interest,  the  dispersing  of  copies 
of  the  King's  private  additional  Instructions — a  rebel  having 
publicly  produced  &  pleaded  in  open  Court  a  copy,  which  the 
Gov""  called  God  to  witness  he  had  never  let  go  out  of  his  hands 
or  trunk.  Readiness  of  the  Indians  to  enter  into  a  firm  peace 
with  the  Indians  which  they  hope  a  short  time  will  accomplish — 
It  will  not  be  long  before  the  Assembly  rise  when  they  will  send 
by  the  Deptford  Ketch  a  more  ample  account  of  their  proceed- 
ings.    16pp.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  132-147.) 


VIRGINIA  IN  1677.  363 

March  27,  1677. 
Queries  for  the  learned  Counsel  at  law  to  resolve 
(sent  with  the  Commissioners  letter  of  this  date  to  Secretary- 
Coventry)  Whether  a  person  dying  before  conviction,  his 
estate  be  forfeited  to  the  King — Whether  persons  estates  con- 
demned &  executed  by  Court  Martial  and  not  b}^  a  legal  Jury 
of  twelve  men  be  forfeited — Whether  any  seizure  be  legally 
executed  before  conviction  or  attainder — Whether  the  estates 
of  banished  or  transported  persons  be  liable  to  seizure  and  for- 
feiture.    (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  147-148.) 

Swann's  Point,  March  27,  1677. 
The  Commiss"  for  Virginia  to  Secretary  Coventry — 
The  occasion  of  their  coming  and  present  residence  here,  no 
house  being  within  four  or  five  miles,  invites  a  constant  resort 
of  people  from  all  parts  of  the  Country  upon  public  business 
whom  they  are  forced  to  entertain  at  no  small  expense — Beg 
he  will  lay  this  their  pressure  before  his  Maj.  so  that  a  limited 
salary  may  not  include  an  unlimited  stay  and  expense.  3pp. 
(Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  149-151.) 

Swann's  Point,  James  River,  March  27,  1677. 
Col.  Herbert  Jeffreys,  Sir  John  Berry  and  Col.  Francis 
MoRYSON  TO  Secretary  Sir  Joseph  Williamson — The  Peoples 
return  to  their  obedience  has  been  as  general  as  their  late  dis- 
loyal Revolt  &  had  the  Governor  been  as  open  handed  as  his 
Maj.  Acts  of  Mercy,  the  whole  Country  would  now  be  composed 
— Complaints  against  Gov.  Berkeley  for  treating  men  as  Delin- 
quents before  any  due  Attainder  seizing  their  Estates  and 
marking  their  tobacco  for  his  private  use — How  the  Merchants 
and  Factors  complain  of  their  trade  being  retarded  and  their 
ships  being  made  Gaols  for  Rebels  &  Refugees  without  any 
recompense.  Have  observed  that  those  who  call  themselves 
the  loyal  party  are  the  only  Chief  Disturbers  and  Obstructors 
of  this  calamitous  Country,  so  that  now  nothing  but  a  general 
penal  Act  of  Oblivion  can  make  up  these  breaches.     Advised 


364  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

the  hanging  in  chains  in  his  own  Country  of  one  Arnold  a  hor- 
rible resolved  Rebel  and  Traitor — Have  now  no  reason  to  fear 
any  new  Mutiny,  but  have  advised  a  stop  to  this  rigid  prosecu- 
tion and  the  Assembly  have  also  by  Address  voted  the  Governor 
to  forbear  "and  hold  his  hand  from  all  future  sanguinary  pun- 
ishments."    (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     3pp.) 


Swann's  Point,  March  27,  1677. 
The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  the  Lord  Treasurer 
OF  England — Send  transcript  of  a  joint  letter  to  Sir  W.  Berke- 
ley with  his  answer  and  copies  of  petitions  relating  to  his  Maj. 
revenue  which  they  thought  it  their  duty  to  advertize  him  of, 
referring  him  for  further  satisfaction  to  other  letters  which  Mr. 
Watkins  will  communicate  to  his  Lordship.     (Abstract) 

(Col.    Entry   Bk.    No.    8L    pp.    186-7.) 


Swann's  Point,  March  27,  1677. 
CoL.  Francis  Moryson  to  Mr.  Cooke — The  Commiss" 
doubt  not  but  matters  will  be  shortly  composed  to  his  Maj. 
satisfaction  if  Sir  W.  Berkeley  will  please  but  with  freedom  to 
permit  his  Maj.  Acts  of  Grace  to  pass  as  his  Maj.  royally 
intended  them — To  acquaint  Sec  Coventry  how  he  has  managed 
that  affair  he  left  Moryson  to  acquaint  the  Country  with :  his 
Royal  Highness'  promise  that  the  two  Patents  shall  be  taken 
in  and  vacated  without  any  charge  to  the  Country  which  he  has 
made  known  to  the  Assembly — His  gratitude  for  being  joined 
with  his  worthy  &  generous  fellow  Commiss"  a  fitter  person 
than  Jeffreys  would  not  have  been  found  to  quel  this  Rebellion : 
Sir  John  Berry  of  unbiassed  principles,  prudent  conduct  and 
unwearied  industry  for  the  service — Protestations  of  his  own 
sincerity  as  an  Agent  and  in  his  present  character.  The  strait- 
ness  of  his  salary  and  fortune;  desires  Sec  Coventry's  exertions 
in  his  behalf.     8pp.     (Abstract.) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  160-167.) 


VIRGINIA  IN   1677.  365 

March  27,  1677. 
Col.  Herbert  Jeffreys,  Sir  John  Berry  and  Col.  Francis 
MoRYSON  TO  Thos.  Watkins — Directions  as  to  public  papers 
sent  for  Secretary  Coventry  and  the  Lord  Treasurer.  The 
Country  in  a  peaceable  quiet  condition;  all  that  obstructs  it, 
is  the  Governor's  abiding  upon  the  place  and  the  fierceness  of 
those  who  call  themselves  the  Loyal  Party,  which  are  not  many 
and  among  them  not  twenty  eminent  sufferers  in  Estate — Their 
rapacious  insolence  exasperates  the  other  party  and  their 
importunate  sollicitations  to  try  &  condemn  the  guilty  party 
"which  indeed  is  little  less  than  the  whole  Country" — The 
necessity  of  a  general  Act  of  Oblivion  which  the  Assembly  will 
hardly  be  brought  to  without  His  Maj.  express  injunctions 
compel,  as  in  the  case  in  England.  The  general  grievances  so 
few  and  trivial  that  but  for  the  Governors  contrariety  they  see 
no  further  occasion  to  stay  a  fortnight.  Have  been  forced  to 
urge  again  and  again  their  Instructions  for  retrenching  the 
Great  Salary  of  the  Assembly — now  reduced  to  120  lbs.  per 
diem,  the  very  lowest  allowance  the  Burgesses  can  support  their 
charges  under.  The  estates  of  tobacco,  cattle  &c.  carried  off 
by  the  Gov'. — Bland  executed  this  day  at  James  Town — Fines 
imposed  by  the  Governor,  detested  by  Jeffreys  &  his  Officers. 
(Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     3pp.) 

March  29,  1677. 
Certificate  of  Governor  Berkeley  for  the  receipt  of  goods  and 
two  servants  consigned  to  Wm.  Hunt  in  the  Richard  and  Eliza- 
beth, Capt.  Nicholas  Pryn,  according  to  a  BiU  of  Lading  an- 
nexed.    (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.  2  pp.) 

Green   Spring,   April   2,    1677. 
Major  Robert  Beverley,  Clerk  of  the  Assembly  to 
Thos.  Ludwell  and  Col.  Daniel  Parke,  Treasurers  for  Vir- 
ginia— Directing  them  to  honor  and  pay  certain  Bills  as  per 
annexed  list  drawn  upon  them  for  satisfaction  of  the  public 


366  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

debts,  according  to  annexed  Order  of  Assembly  of  20th  Feb- 
ruary last.  Also — List  of  Bills  drawn  by  the  Grand  Assembly 
of  Virginia  on  Thos.  Ludwell  and  are  already  paid  by  Garvin 
Corbin,  July  1677.  Indorsed  "Rec^^  June  1677."  (Colonial 
Papers.  3  pp.)  Copies  of  the  above  are  also  entered  in  Col. 
Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  139-142.  followed  by  an  order  of  the 
Privy  thereon  of  11  July  1677,  which  see.     (Abstract.) 


Swann's  Point,  April  5,  1677. 
The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Secretary  Coventry. 
On  Tuesday  last  the  Assembly  concluded ;  only  await  on  account 
of  the  whole  of  their  proceedings  to  send  away  the  Deptford 
Ketch  (their  final  dispatch) — The  Assembly  has  given  Berke- 
ley £500,  but  they  find  nothing  done  on  his  part  in  order  to  a 
peace  with  the  Indians.  He  gives  no  accotmt  of  his  late  seizures 
as  they  desired  &  he  at  first  promised,  nor  has  he  yet  answered 
in  any  one  particiilar  their  instructions  but  now  insists  on  seeing 
their  private  power  which  they  declined  showing,  finding  him 
so  critical  and  captious  at  all  advantages  to  himself.  The 
Council,  the  Assembly  and  People  are  and  have  been  so  over- 
awed &  biassed  by  the  Gov'"  that  some  Counties  dare  not  bring 
in  their  Grievances  before  Berkeley  be  gone — fear  at  last  Col. 
Jeffreys  will  be  forced  to  send  him  home,  for  he  is  still  as  back- 
ward as  at  first  for  ought  they  perceive — before  the  mists  he  by 
all  artifices  casts  before  them  can  be  cleared — The  main  business 
of  this  letter  by  Capt.  Morris  is  to  give  an  account  of  his  very 
eminent  sufferings  and  services — his  ship  has  not  only  been  a 
receptacle  for  the  loyal  party  but  to  the  Rebels  a  prison — Col. 
Jeffreys  absent  at  the  Camp  at  Middle  Plantation  with  his 
officers.     6pp.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  182-187.) 


April  11,  1677. 
Petition  of  Edward  Lloyd  of  James  City  County,  Planter, 
to  his  Maj.  Commissioners — Against  Capt''  Wm.  Hartwell  for 
imprisoning  him  three  weeks,  during  which  time  his  house  was 


VIRGINIA  IN  1677.  367 

plundered  by  Gov.  Berkeley's  servants  and  petitioners  wife 
(great  with  child)  so  affrighted  that  she  died — With  the  Mid- 
wife's deposition  &  the  oath  of  Lloyd.     (Abstract) 
(Colonial  Papers.     3  pp.) 

Swann's  Point,  James  River,  April  13,  1677. 
Col.  Herb.  Jeffreys,  Sir  John  Berry  and  Col.  Francis 
MoRYSON  TO  Secretary  Sir  Joseph  Williamson — The  Grand 
Assembly  lately  risen  from  whom  they  were  promised  and 
expected  an  ample  account  of  their  proceedings,  but  they  have 
returned  home  without  giving  any — Can  only  at  present  refer 
him  to  Mr.  Watkins.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     1  p.) 

James  City,  Virginia,  April  13,  1677. 
Wm.  Sherwood  to  Secretary  Sir  Joseph  Williamson — 
Account  of  Governor  Berkeley's  persecutions  since  the  writer's 
return  from  England  when  he  said  before  Colonel  Parker,  the 
general  cry  of  the  Country  was  against  the  Governor  and  that 
the  Country  would  not  be  quiet  so  long  as  he  continued  Governor 
and  Ludwell,  Secretary — Describes  the  peoples'  grievances 
against  Gov.  Berkeley  and  their  over  joy  at  his  gomg  hence — 
Begs  he  may  not  have  the  writer's  letters,  for  he  is  most  malic- 
ious against  him — Points  out  the  worth  of  the  large  testimony 
of  the  Assembly  to  the  prudence  of  Bericeley's  government. 
(Abstract.) 

(Colonial  Papers.     2  pp.) 

April  14,  1677. 
The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Mr.  Watkins.  To 
confer  with  Capt.  Middleton  who  has  had  a  general  knowledge 
of  occurrences  here  upon  the  place — more  particularly  in  the 
business  of  the  patents — for  it  was  he  who  very  fortimately 
and  prudently  discovered  to  them  Lord  Culpeper's  design  of 
setting  the  same  on  foot  again  after  his  Royal  Highness'  com- 
mands and  his  own  professions  to  the  contrary.  3  pp. 
(Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  205-207.) 


368  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Swarm's  Point,  April  14,  1677. 
Colonel  Moryson  to  Lord  Culpeper — In  reference  to  the 
patents  which  Moryson  confesses  himself  somewhat  stirprised 
to  find  his  Lordship  was  now  for  setting  on  foot  again,  the  Com- 
miss"  having  told  the  Country  that  the  Duke  of  York  was 
pleased  to  promise  the  calling  in  and  vacating  those  Grants 
that  were  so  prejudicial  to  this  Country  without  any  charge 
to  them.     3  pp.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81  pp.   201-204.) 

April  20,  1677. 
Petition  of  Thomas  Bobby  of  James  City  County, 
Planter,  to  his  Maj.  Commissioners  for  Virginia — Against 
Hartwell  for  imprisoning  him  and  forcing  him  to  pay  a  com- 
position of  500  lbs.  of  pork  200  lbs  of  Bacon  and  100  lbs  of  butter 
— ^With  Deposition  upon  oath  annexed  and  Mem.  that  it  was 
owned  by  Hartwell  himself.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     3  pp.) 

April  20,  1677. 
Petition  of  Thos.  Glover  of  James  City  County,  Planter 
to  his  Maj.  Commissioners  for  Virginia — Against  Wm.  Hartv/ell 
for  imprisoning  him  five  weeks  and  forcing  him  to  give  a  horse 
for  his  discharge  of  the  value  of  1200  lbs  of  tobacco — Also, 
Depositions  of  Thos.  Glover  and  Francis  Robinson  thereon  and 
mem.  that  Hartwell  owns  what  the  pet.""  alleges  was  by  the 
Governor's  order.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     4  pp.) 

April  20,  1677. 
Petition  of  Wm.  Hoare  of  James  City  County,  Planter, 
to  his  Maj.  Commissioners  for  Virginia — Against  Hartwell  for 
detaining  him  prisoner  ten  days  and  taking  from  him  his  cattle, 
hogs  and  other  goods,  and  for  demanding  ten  thousand  pounds 
of  pork  to  save  his  life — Also  Hoare's  certificate  to  the  truth  of 
the  above  and  Mem.  that  Sir  Wm.  Berkeley  demanded  the 
pork  to  save  Hoare's  life,  confessed  to  be  true  by  James  Garey 
the  Governor's  servant.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     2  pp.) 


VIRGINIA  IN   1677.  369 

April  20,  1677. 
Petition  of  John  Williams  of  James  City  County, 
Planter,  to  his  Maj.  Commissioners  for  Virginia — Against 
Hartwell  for  imprisoning  him  ten  days  and  forcing  him  by  hard 
usage  to  a  composition  of  two  hogsheads  of  tobacco  and  six 
barrels  of  Indian  Com  to  the  value  of  £16.  sterling — With 
Deposition  on  oath  annexed  and  Mem.  of  Hartwells  confession 
that  it  was  done  by  the  Governor's  order.  (Abstract) 
(Colonial  Papers.     3  pp.) 

April  21,  1677. 
Colonel  Moryson  to  Gov.  Berkeley — They  (the  Com- 
missi'*) intend  waiting  upon  him  tomorrow  to  take  their  fare- 
well leave  of  him  before  he  goes  hence — In  reference  to  the  two 
Patents  they  have  so  laboured  to  overthrow  and  the  resolution 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses  to  a  letter  of  thanks  which  he  hears 
has  been  superseded  by  another  letter  wherein  the  matter  of 
thanks  is  omitted — Prays  him  to  remember  that  he  has  twice 
himself  superseded  these  patents  and  the  charge  it  has  been  to 
this  poor  Country  and  now  it  may  be  had  at  so  easy  a  price  as 
thanks  and  that  Berkeley  only  is  the  Obstructor  of  this  good 
and  royal  Act  "especially  when  so  near  relations  as  yours  and 
your  Lady's  are  concerned."  Shall  expect  his  answer  which 
with  this  letter  he  shall  send  to  the  Duke  of  York.  4  pp. 
(Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  208-211.) 

April  23,  1677. 
The  Commissioners  for  Virginia  to  Governor  Sir 
William  Berkeley — Think  they  deserved  better  than  to  be 
turned  ofif  by  his  Coach  and  the  Common  Hangman  Postilion 
which  is  an  afifront  not  only  against  their  Commission  but 
themselves  as  Gentlemen — Are  resolved  to  make  his  Majesty 
a  Judge  of  this  high  indignity  which  they  believe  he  well  knew 
and  was  purposely  sent  for,  as  a  retainer  to  perform  the  Cere- 
monies of  yesterday.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     1  p.) 


370  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

April  23,  1677. 
Governor  Sir  Wm.  Berkeley  to  [the  Commissioners  for 
Virginia?]  Of  this  particular  of  the  Postilions  he  is  as  inno- 
cent as  the  blessed  Angels  themselves.  But  though  God  suffers 
him  to  be  accused  he  has  in  His  mercy  left  him  a  Great  Exemplar 
to  comfort  him  for  he  suffered  His  only  Glorious  Son  to  be 
accused  of  what  he  was  not  guilty  of  and  oiu*  late  blessed  King 
Charles  the  First  was  brought  to  his  death  by  accusations  he 
was  not  in  the  least  manner  guilty  of.  They  cannot  be  so 
angry  at  this  last  misfortime  as  he  is  sorry  for  it — Never  saw 
the  fellow's  face  but  once  before.  Has  sent  the  Negro  to  be 
racked  tortured  or  whipt  till  he  confess  how  this  dire  misfortune 
happened  and  hopes  this  will  give  them  satisfaction.  (Abstract) 
(Colonial  Papers.     1  p.) 


April  23,  1677. 
Lady  F-Berkeley  to  the  Commissioners  for  Virginia. 
Explains  that  neither  Sir  William  Berkeley  or  herself  have  the 
least  thought  or  knowledge  who  was  their  postilion  and  protests 
in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God  that  the  Governor  gave  no 
order  for  the  coach.  Has  sent  her  coachman  to  be  examined 
to  whom  the  writer  gave  her  orders — Must  say  the  Governor 
is  dealt  more  severely  with  than  ever  man  of  his  quality  and 
character  has  been  in  the  world — to  think  he  could  be  guilty 
of  putting  so  vile  an  affront  upon  any  person  that  has  his  Maj. 
stamp  and  character  to  secure  them  of  respect  from  any  man 
but  a  Bacon.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     2  pp.) 


April  23,  1677. 
Mem.  in  the  handwriting  of  Secretary  Sir  Joseph 
Williamson — Ships  lately  arrived  from  Virginia  bring  news 
that  last  summer  and  autumn  proved  extraordinarily  hot  and 
the  winter  as  violently  cold  and  that  a  great  distemper  has  from 
thence  arisen  amongst  the  Inhabitants  which  has  taken  away 
many — Lord  Berkeley  arrived  at  Chester  on  the  18th — his 


VIRGINIA    IN    1677.  371 

reception  &c. — due  to  a  person  of  his  merits  and  employments. 
Attempt  of  the  apprentices  on  the  New  Exchange  to  keep 
this,  St.  George's  Day,  a  holiday.     (Abstract) 
(Colonial  Papers.     1  p.) 

April  25,  1677. 
Col.  Moryson  to  Gov.  Berkeley — Has  so  much  charity 
of  his  own  as  to  believe  his  high  and  solemn  protests  and  that 
it  was  no  more  possible  the  Gov.  should  intend  than  ever  his 
Maj.  Commiss"  should  deserve  so  great  an  indignity.  In- 
treats  him  to  take  Moryson's  last  letter  into  his  second  thoughts 
seriously  to  consider  its  weighty  contents,  otherwise  he  must 
be  feign  to  write  home  on  purpose  to  his  Royal  Highness  whom 
it  so  highly  concerns  as  well  as  himself,  "therefore  good  Sir  take 
once  more  my  former  letter  in  your  hands  and  think  it  worthy 
of  a  full  and  particular  reply."  Hopes  the  waters  he  sent  will 
give  Berkeley  great  relief.     3  pp.     (Abstract) 

(Col.  Entry  Bk.  No.  81.  pp.  218-220.) 

April  25,  1677. 
Governor  Berkeley  to  Colonel  Moryson.  Gives  hearty 
thanks  for  the  tobacco  and  waters — Is  so  distracted  with  this 
last  dire  misfortune  that  he  scarce  knows  what  he  does  or  says, 
tho'  he  is  innocent — Has  sent  the  Negro  and  desires  he  may  be 
examined  to  the  quick.     (Abstract) 

(Colonial  Papers.     1  p.) 

Virginia,  April  25,  1677. 
Elizabeth  Dudley  &  James  Dudley,  Thomas  Dudley  and 
Wm.  Dudley  to  James  Gary  living  at  the  Dager  in  Watling 
street.     The  distractions  of  this  Colony  by  the  wise  carriage 
of  his  Maj.  Commissioners  are  most   happily  reconciled  and 
in  a  posture  of  quiet  and  peaceable  settlement  for  the  future. 
Beg  his  assistance  in  relation  to  certain  hogsheads  of  tobacco 
seized  from  their  deceased  father  unjustly  by  Sir  Wm.  Berkeley 
&  illegally  converted  to  his  own  use.     (Abstract) 
(Colonial  Papers.     2  pp.) 
(To  be  Continued) 


372  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 


VIRGINIA  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 


Communicated  by  Mr.  Lothrop  Withington,  30  Little  Russell 
Street,  W.  C.  London,  (including  "Gleanings"  by  Mr.  H.  F. 
Waters,  not  before  printed.) 


John  Martin  of  Dublin,  Merchant.  Will  30  April  1760; 
proved.  Brother  George  Martin  devised  his  lands  in  Mill- 
town  etc  to  trustees  for  my  benefit.  I  have  paid  the  sums  to 
children  of  Brother  James  Martin.  To  daughter  Agnes  Martin 
£2000.  To  son  Lewis  Martin  £500.  To  grandson  George 
Barclay  £200.  To  Andrew  Stewart  in  full  satisfaction  out  of 
my  benefits  under  George  Martins  will  £10  yearly  out  of  my 
estate  in  Virginia.  To  Caple  Street  Meeting  £5.  Lands  of 
MiUtown  to  eldest  son  George  Martin  and  at  his  death  to 
Edmon  Sexton  Perry  and  James  Ager  the  younger  of  Dublin 
Esqrs  in  trust  for  his  male  heirs  failing  whom  to  second  son 
Samuel  Martin  and  heirs  male,  in  default  third  son  Lewis  Martin 
and  heirs  male,  then  Eldest  daughter  Lucy  Agar  and  heirs  male. 
To  2nd  daughter  Agnes  Martin  and  heirs  male  and  the  right 
heirs  Lands  in  Virginia  to  2  youngest  sons  Samuel  and  Lewis 
with  succession  in  default  to  daughter  Lucy  Agar  and  Agnes 
Martin.  Daughter  Alicia  Martin  otherwise  Campbell  wife  of 
son  George  Martin  entitled  under  Marriage  settlement  to  rent 
charges  on  lands  in  Virginia  of  £150  a  year  Irish  currency. 
Daughter  Lucy  Agar  wife  of  James  Agar  Esq  £2000  her  portion 
to  be  paid.  Executors:  sons  George,  Samuel  and  Lewis 
Witnesses :  Jas  Shiel,  Tho  Leech,  Thomas  Fitzsimmons  Codicil 
15  October  1760.  same  witnesses.  Lands  in  Kilcoskanl 
charged  with  payment  of  rents  to  Ann  Stewart  widow  and  Jane 
Benson  widow. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Ireland 
will  Book;  1761,  fo.  215. 


VIRGINIA   GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND.  373 

[This  John  Martin,  the  testator  of  1760,  was  certaroly  Col.  John  Martin 
of  Virginia,  to  whom  his  brother,  Dr.  George  Martin,  of  Dublin,  be- 
queathed an  estate  in  1746,  (see  this  Magazine  XXI,  249).  It  is 
equally  certain  that  he  was  the  Col.  John  Martin  who  lived  in  Caroline 
Co.  in  1732,  when  Col.  Byrd  visited  his  house,  and  who  was  a  Burgess 
for  that  County.  It  will  be  seen  from  the  will  of  Thomas  Turner  (This 
Magazine  XX,  439,)  that  Turner  states  he  bought  a  tract  of  land  in  Caro- 
line from  "Col.  John  Martin  and  his  son  George."  This  was  the  land 
sold  in  1752  (see  this  Magazine  XIII,  198)  by  "John  and  George  Martin, 
of  the  City  of  Bristol,  merchants,"  through  "John  Martin,  gent.,  of 
Virginia,"  their  attorney.  Col.  John  Martin  and  his  son  George  evidently 
removed  from  Virginia  to  Bristol,  where  they  became  merchants.  John 
Martin  of  Virginia,  their  attorney,  was  no  doubt  another  son  of  Col.  Jno. 
Martin,  and  was  the  Burgess  for  King  William  County,  who  died  during 
the  session  of  1756.  It  seems  probable,  as  there  is  no  mention  of  any 
children  of  his  in  Col.  Martins  will,  that  John  Martin,  Jr.,  died  without 
issue.  Of  the  daughters,  Elizabeth  married  in  1742,  Patrick  Barclay, 
of  Louisa  Co.,  Va.,  Lucy,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  first  Henry 
Boyle,  yovmgest  son  of  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Shannon,  and  secondly,  March 
20,  1760,  James  Agar,  of  Co.  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  who,  in  1776  was  created 
Baron,  and  in  1781,  Viscount  Clifden.  Lady  Clifden  died  July  26,  1802. 
The  second  surviving  daughter,  Agnes  Martin,  was  unmarried  at  the  date 
of  her  father's  will.  Patty  youngest  daughter,  married  in  1756,  Edmond 
Sexton  Perry,  Speaker  of  the  Irish  House  of  Commons  1771-1785,  and 
in  1785  created  Viscount  Perry.  She  had  doubtless  already  been  pro- 
vided for.  The  will  of  Lucia,  Viscountess  Clifden  (bom  Martin)  was 
proved  in  1802  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Dublin.  That  of  George 
Martin,  of  the  City  of  Dublin,  Esq.,  was  proved  in  1811.  These  would 
probably  give  additional  information  in  regard  to  the  family.] 

Leonard  Bagge  of  Killbree,  county  Waterford,  Esquire. 
Will  1  August  1719;  proved  8  December  1719.  To  my  wife 
Cicilia  for  life  £500  and  a  bond  of  Andrew  Bagge  for  £100  now 
in  hands  of  Matthew  Jacob  Esqr  and  Mr.  Hercules  Beer  accord- 
ing to  marriage  settlement  on  4  October  1708,  also  £250.  My 
stock  in  Moned  and  Duftcarrick,  Kilbree  and  New  Aftane  to 
my  children  subject  to  following  legacies.  To  mother 
Mrs.  Susanna  Bagge  £20  yearly.  To  William  Connolly  als 
Mc James  of  Ardmore  £1.  10s.  yearly.  I  forgive  Brother 
Luke  Bagge  all  he  owes  me  and  give  him  my  partnership  with 
Mr.  Barry  Strongman  of  tithes  in  County  Cork  purchased 
from  Mr.  John  Pembrock  of  Dungarvan.  I  forgive  my  nephew 
Joseph  Conghlan  what  he  owes  me.  To  eldest  daughter  Mary 
Bagge  £400  as  a  marriage  portion.  To  second  daughter  Ann 
Bagge  ditto.  Wife  now  with  child,  if  daughter  ditto.  Residue 
to  sons  William  and  John.  To  my  dear  Brother  ye  reverand 
Mr.  John  Bagge  £500  provided  he  comes  to  Ireland  and  de- 
mands it.     Executors  and  Trustees:  My  Brother  Revd  Mr. 


374  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Jo:  Bagge  of  Virginia,  Brother  Jeremy  Coughlan  of  Lismore 
Esq,  Brother  Luke  Bagge  of  Clattahenny  gen  and  nephew 
Joseph  Coughlan  Esq  Witnesses :  Fran :  Flaherty,  Edwd  Butter, 
Jn  Hely,  Wm.  Coughlan. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Ireland 

Will  Book  1718-20,  fo.  225. 

John  Bagge,  of  Monea,  county  Waterford,  gent.  Will  14 
April  1772;  proved  11  December  1772.  To  be  buried  at  Kil- 
molish  near  my  father  and  mother.  To  Roger  Green  of  Youg- 
hal  county  Cork  merchant  and  Thomas  Judge  of  Clerkstown, 
county  Waterford  gent  lands  of  Grange  held  from  Earl  of 
Grandison  and  land  of  Monea  held  from  Bishop  of  Waterford 
also  my  sixth  part  of '  Monegarroff  in  County  Tipperary.  In 
trust  for  my  son  John  Bagge  and  heirs  male.  To  daughter 
Anna  Bagge  £800  above  money  left  by  her  grandfather  Wil- 
liam Cooke.  To  daughter  Cecilia  Judge  wife  of  Thomas  Judge 
£24  yearly.  To  John  son  of  Roger  Green  £5  to  his  son  James 
£5.  House  in  Cork  to  son  To  sister  Ann  Greahicks  £5 
yearly.  To  Mary  Cox  £5.  Witnesses  Franc  Ellis,  John 
Walker,  Edwd  Smyth. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Ireland 
Will  Book  1772,  fo.  12. 


[Rev.  John  Bagge,  brother  of  Leonard  Bagge,  was  minister  of  St. 
Anne's  Parish,  Essex  Co..,  Va.,  1771-1726,  when  he  died.  He  had  a 
nephew,  Edmond  Bagge,  who  also  lived  in  Virginia,  and  died  in  Essex 
Cotinty  in  1734,  leaving  a  son  Robert.  See  this  Magazine  XII,  299, 
300.  The  will  which  follows  is  that  of  a  later  member  of  the  Irish  family. 
The  will  of  Rev.  John  Bagge,  of  Virginia,  which  had  first  been  recorded 
in  the  Colony,  was  proved  in  Dublin  in  1726.] 

John  Cooke  of  Youghall  County  Cork,  Esq.  Will  7  Feb- 
ruary 1712;  proved  4  March  1713.  To  be  buried  either  in  my 
own  burial  place  of  Youghall  Church  or  by  my  father  in  Church 
yard  of  Affame.  To  my  mother  Cecilia  Cooke  my  farm  of 
Graige  county  Waterford  or  £20  yearly.  To  wife  Ann  Cooke 
houses  in  Youghall  also  my  estate  of  Kilbrush  and  Kippane. 
To  son  Thomas  Cooke  my  dwelling  house  in  Youghall  and 
£1000  in  hands  of  Mr.  James  Tynt  als  Worth  for  which  estate 


VIRGINIA    GLEANINGS   IN   ENGLAND.  375 

of  Dame  Mabell  Tynt  and  Harry  Tynt  Esq  deceased  stand 
liable,  failing  him  and  his  heirs  if  my  daughter  Mabell  Cooke 
als  Harrison  shall  survive  her  now  husband  Henry  Harrison 
clerk  and  marry  again  then  the  issue  to  have  reversion.  Be- 
quests to  son  Thomas  according  to  provisions  of  marriage 
settlement  between  me  and  his  mother  Margaret  Tynt  by  deed 
of  5  August  1687.  Servant  John  Moore  £5.  House  that  Mr. 
Welch  and  Mr.  Robinson  now  live  in  to  wife.  Executors: 
Wife  Ann  Cooke  and  son  Thomas  Cooke.  Overseers:  John 
Walker  of  Youghall  gent  and  Thomas  Baker  of  Lismara  gent. 
Witnesses :  Francis  Boyse,  David  Crafford,  He.  Crotty. 

P.  C.  Ireland.  Prerogative 
Will   Book,    1713-15,   fo.   80. 

Thomas  Cooke  of  Youghall,  coimty  Cork,  gent.  Will 
proved  27  November  1750.  To  cousin  Thomas  Cooke  of 
Amasack  in  the  Liberties  of  Youghall  one  third  of  lands  of 
Ballyhay  Ardra  in  county  Cork  which  belong  to  me  by  right  of 
my  mother  Margret  Cooke  otherwise  Tynte  To  sister  Mable 
Harrison  otherwise  Cooke  £20  a  year.  Residuary  Legatee  and 
Executor :  cousin  Thomas  Cooke.  Witnesses :  Samuel  Luther, 
George  Mannix,  Thomas  Gimlett. 

Prerogative  Court  Ireland 

will  Book,   1750-51,  fo.    196. 

John  Cook  of  the  parish  of  Over  Wharton  and  County  of 
Stafford  in  the  Colony  of  Virginia  gent.  Will  26  December 
1732;  proved  11  April  1733.  To  be  buried  as  his  executrix 
thinks  fit.  To  wife  Elizabeth  Cooke  for  life  a  plantation  on 
Potomack  river  side  of  462  acres  and  40  acres  adjoining 
and  negroes  Corkpegg  and  Charlott,  at  her  decease  to  my  son 
Traverse  Cooke,  in  default  of  issue  to  my  3  daughters  Ann,  Han- 
nah and  Million  Land  on  Cedar  River  400  acres  to  son  Traverse. 
1664  acres  to  3  daughters  Ann,  Hannah  and  Millian.  Negro 
Slave  Dublin  to  son  Traverse.  Slave  Sarah  to  daughter  Ann. 
slave  will  to  daughter  Hannah,  Slave  Tomboy  to  daughter  Mil- 
lian. Money  in  Ireland  to  wife  and  children.  Land :  1500  acres 
on  north  side  of  the  Bever  dams  to  Samuel  Timmions  of  Stafford 


376  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

County  on  payment  of  1261  lbs  of  tobacco  due  to  my  estate. 
Executrix:  Wife  Elizabeth.  Overseers:  Rev.  Alexander  Scott, 
Mr.  Rawleigh  Traverse.  Witnesses:  Wm.  Allison,  Rawleigh 
Travers,  Nath.  Smith,  Robt  Smith,  Mary  Row.  Codicil  27  De- 
cember 1732.  Negro  Slave  Ann  Versper  to  wife.  Witnesses: 
Simon  Pearson,  Wm  Brent,  Benj  Brent,  Rawleigh  Travers. 
Proved  at  Stafford  Coimty  Thomas  Claiborne,  C.  Cur.  William 
Henry  Terrett,  clerk  of  Thomas  Claiborne  certifies  copy.  Wit- 
nesses: Henry  Washington,  Chandler  Fowke,  as  justices  ac- 
cording, witnesses:  James  Nicholson  Jo.  Gill  junr,  Robt. 
Jackson. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Ireland 
Will  Book  1735,  filed  will. 

[Though  neither  the  will  of  John  Cooke,  of  Youghall,  nor  that  of  his 
son  Thomas  Cooke,  of  the  same  place,  names  the  Virginia  Cookes  of 
Stafford  Co.,  it  is  evident  that  they  belonged  to  the  same  family.  John 
Cooke,  a  native  of  Ireland,  settled  in  Stafford  County,  Va.,  early  in  the 
Eighteenth  Century,  and  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Raleigh  Travers 
of  Stafford  County,  and  his  wife  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ball.  She 
was  half  sister  of  Mary  Ball,  mother  of  George  Washington.  Mrs. 
Travers  married  secondly  Simon  Pearson,  and  in  her  will,  proved  Decem- 
ber 13, 1748,  names  her  daughter  Elizabeth  Cooke,  and  her  grandchildren, 
Travers  and  Hannah  Cooke.  John  Cooke,  of  Stafford,  died  in  1732  and 
his  will  was  among  the  portions  of  the  Stafford  records  destroyed  by 
Federal  Soldiers  during  the  Civil  War;  but  a  copy  of  his  will  was  proved 
in  Dublin,  from  which  the  abstract  given  here  was  made.  In  this  will  he 
refers  to  his  money  in  Ireland.  Besides  several  daughters,  one  bearing 
the  peculiar  name.  Million,  which  was  derived  from  the  Travers  family, 
he  had  one  son,  Travers  Cooke  of  Stafford  Coimty.  The  will  of  the  lat- 
ter, dated  December  1759,  and  proved  June  13,  1759,  is  of  record  in  Staf- 
ford. His  legatees  were  his  wife  Mary,  and  his  sons  John  and  Mott. 
He  states  there  is  "A  large  balance  due  me  by  my  uncle  Thomas  Cooke, 
of  Youghall  in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland  for  the  rents  and  profits  of  my 
estate  there."  He  directs  that  his  sons  should  have  as  good  an  edu- 
cation as  his  estate  would  afford.  The  inventory  of  his  personal  prop- 
erty amounts  to  £947.14.4,  and  includes  a  set  of  Spectators  at  £1.8, 
Tattlers  at  14  shillings,  two  Guardians  at  5  shillings,  4  prayer  books  at 
£1.5,  and  a  parcel  of  "old  books"  at  7  shillings  6  pence.  Evidently  the 
appraisers  were  fond  of  the  essayists.  As  Thomas  Cooke  of  Youghall 
died  in  1750,  without  issue,  it  is  probable  that  Travers  Cooke's  imcle 
Thomas,  was  the  "Cousin  Thomas  Cooke"  who  was  the  residuary 
legatee  of  Thomas  of  Youghall.  A  proper  examination  of  wills  and 
other  records  in  Ireland  would  doubtless  furnish  a  satiffactory  pedigree. 
There  is  a  notice  of  the  Cookes  of  Stafford  in  Hayden's  Virginia  Gene- 
alogies, p.  300.] 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS.  377 


REVOLUTIONARY  ARMY  ORDERS 


For  the  Main  Anny  Under  Washington  1778-1779 


(From  the  Originals  in  the  Collection  of  the  Virginia  Histor- 
ical Society) 


(Continued) 

D.  A.  O.  Nov^  8*^'  79 

The  Orders  Given  Yesterday  Evening  for  the  Division  to 
hold  themselves  in  Readiness  to  march  at  the  Shortest  warn- 
ing is  not  to  interfair  with  the  fatigue  party,  which  are  to  be 
Continued  as  usual.  Such  men  as  were  sent  back,  to  New 
Jermantown  as  Shoe-makers  are  to  be  immediately  ordered  to 
their  Reg*^  or  sent  to  the  Hospital,  if  they  Should  be  proper 
Objects  for  it  And  not  to  be  Continued  any  Longer  with  Mi 
Taylor  on  any  pretence  whatever  The  Officers  &  Soldiers  are 
Requested  to  Run  the  Funnels  of  their  Chimneys  Something 
higher  to  prevent  Damage  to  the  Tents.  The  picquet  at 
Havarstraugh  Landing  being  too  Distant  to  be  Relieved  daily 
is  to  be  Continued  three  days  &  to  be  furnished  with  pro- 
vision accordingly.  The  Baron  Stuben  will  be  with  the  Di- 
vision in  a  few  days  to  make  a  Gen'l  Inspection  of  the  Different 
Reg*«  its  Recommended  to  the  officers  of  all  Rank  to  pay  im- 
mediate attention  to  the  mens  Arms  and  Clothing,  that  we 
may  make  as  Good  an  appearance,  as  Can  be  Expected  from 
the  present  State  of  our  Necessarys. 


378  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

The  Extream  driness  of  the  weather  has  prevented  many 
mills  from  Grinding  which  has  Occationed  Considerable  De- 
lays in  the  Supplys  of  Flour,  if  an  ample  Supply  of  that  Article 
Does  not  Arive  before  the  next  Issuing  Day,  The  Comissary 
are  to  serve  the  Troops  with  half  Allowance  of  Flour  and  make 
up  the  Dififincy  in  Beef  as  nothing  but  Necessity  occations  this 
alteration  in  the  Rations,  And  it  is  Expected  to  Continue 
but  a  few  Days,  The  Comm'g  officers  Does  not  Intertain  a 
Doubt  but  it  will  be  Chearfully  acquiesed  in  by  the  Troops,  a 
mistake  have  prevented  the  Field  Officers  meeting  today  agree- 
able to  Yesterdays  Orders  They  are  Requested  to  meet  at  Gen'l 
Woodfords  Quarters  at  half  past  9  Oclock. 

The  Honourable  the  Executed  power  of  the  State  of  Virg'a 
having  approved  of  the  Recommendations  of  the  following 
Gentlemen  to  be  Ensigns  in  Gen'l  Woodfords  Brigade — 

The  are  hereb}^  Appointed  as  follows  and  are  to  be  Obe3^ed 
Accordingly  Viz* 

No.  1  Isaac  Jefrys  to  the  5^^  Virg'a  Reg* 

2  Robert  Cradox  11*^  Do 

3  James  Broadus  7*'^  Do 

4  Wm  Spencer  8**^  Do 

Their  Commissions  will  bear  date  from  the  25*^  of  last  Sep- 
tember and  their  Relative  Rank  to  each  other,  having  been 
Determined  by  lot  is  to  take  place  agreeable  to  the  above  ar- 
rangem* 

It  being  Represented  that  it  v/ould  be  more  agreeable  to  the 
parties  as  well  as  the  officers  of  the  Different  Reg*^  that  M' 
Peaton  Powel  lately  appointed  Ensign  in  the  2^^  Reg*  Shoidd 
be  Transfered  to  the  7**^  Reg*  And  that  M''  James  Broadus 
Should  be  Appointed  to  the  2^  Reg*  in  his  place 

The  Alteration  is  to  take  place  accordingly. 


R.  0.  Nov  8*^  79 

As  Baron  Stuben  is  soon  to  Inspect  the  line  The  Command- 
ing officer  hopes  &  Expects  that  Comm'g  officers  of  Comp'ys 


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will  assidious  in  having  the  Clothing  of  their  Several  Com- 
panies mended  and  put  in  the  best  Order  our  Situation  will 
admit  of  to  afifect  this  all  the  Taylors  are  to  be  Exempted  from 
Other  Duty. 

The  Gentlemen  will  allso  be  pertictdarly  attentive  to  the 
Arms  &  Accoutrements  of  their  Respective  Companies. 
Jno  Allison  L*  Colo 

Commandant. 

D.  O.  Havarstraugh  Thursday  Nov^  9^^  79 
F.  O.  Major  Stephenson 
B.  M.  Croughan 

The  Commissarys  are  to  Isue  One  days  Rum  to  the  whole 
Division  Except  those  on  fatigue  at  Stoney  point  who  Drew 
Yesterday. 

For  PoHce  Cap*  Hamilton 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Merewether 


Picquet 

inQd  1 

Q'Qd  1 

Fatigue  3 

For  3  days  fatigue  3 

B.  O.  Havarstraugh  Nov'  10*^  79 

F.  O.  Major  Merewether 

B.  M.  Mitchel 

Several  Roberry  of  a  very  alarming  Nature  have  been  Com- 
mited  in  this  neighbourhood  by  the  Soldiers,  accompanied  by 
the  most  abhored  Abuse  to  the  Inhabitants  Which  is  Occa- 
sioned by  the  men  being  permited  to  Stragle  out  of  Camp  in 
the  night.  The  Officers  are  desired  to  have  their  Rolls  Called 
at  Different  times  of  the  night  a  Greeable  to  a  former  order  and 
to  fall  on  the  most  Effectual  Method  the  Can  think  of  to 
prevent  this  Abuse  as  well  as  to  Detect  those  who  are  Con- 
cerned in  the  late  Robbery — 

B.  O.  Nov'  10*''  79 


380  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE. 

The  Brigadier  is  Exceedingly  Sorry  to  find  from  the  Gen'l 
Complaint  of  the  Inhabitants  in  the  Vicinity  of  Camp  that  the 
order  heretofore  Isued  to  prevent  the  Soldiers  from  Stragling 
in  the  night  has  proved  unefectual  Scarce  a  farmer  in  the  Neigh- 
bourhood who  has  not  been  Robed  &  Insulted  The  Brigadier 
Calls  on  the  officers  in  Gen'l  as  they  value  their  own  Reputa- 
tion and  that  of  the  Corps  to  Exert  themselves  in  puting  a 
stop  to  these  licentious  practises,  and  orders  in  the  most  positive 
terms  that  the  Rools  be  Called  Every  Evening  after  Tatoo 
beating,  and  that  every  Soldier  absent  without  leave  be  sent 
to  the  provost  immediately  after  his  Return  &  Report  to  the 
Brigadier — PatroUers  are  likewise  to  be  sent  out  by  the  B. 
majors  after  Tattoo  to  Examin  the  Environs  of  Camp  &  to 
take  up  Every  Soldier  Absent  from  his  Reg* 

For  police  Cap*  Williams 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Cary 

D.  A.  O.     Novemb--  10 

The  fatigue  partys  imployed  in  making  Fasheans  &c  are  to 
be  discontinued 

The  Com'^ing  officer  is  much  obbliged  to  Cap*  Hill  for  super- 
intending these  partys  and  Request  the  Cap*  will  fimiish  him 
with  an  a  Exact  Return  of  the  number  maid  and  a  discripsion 
of  the  different  places  wher  they  Lay. 

D.  O.  Havrystraw  Thursday  Novemb  11*'' 

Field  officer  Colo  Russell 

B.  M.  Crawhom 

As  the  fatigues  are  more  inconsiderable  Redussed  the  Brig- 
gad  in  Spectors  will  fix  upon  proper  Ground  to  have  thir  Brig- 
gads  out  to  Exersize  Every  Feare  day  at  a  1 1  oclock  when  every 
officer  and  Soldier  not  upon  duty  are  to  attend. 

Each  Briggad  are  to  make  out  a  Return  of  all  the  nesserrys 
theay  are  deficant  in  from  the  Common  serry  of  the  milliterry 
Stors  to  furnish  their  Conducttors  with  them  a  mediately  that 
they  may  be  drawn  as  a  large  Supply  Of  thies  Stores  that  are 


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now  ctim  up  for  the  last  that  will  a  rive  for  this  Campain  no 
time  is  to  be  lost. 

D.  O.  Havarstraugh  Nov'  12*''  79 
F.  O.  Colo  Gibson 
B.  M.  Mitchel 
Fatigue  Colo  Gwatkins 

10  of  the  best  Carpenters  from  Each  Brigade  are  to  be  sent 
Down  to  Stoney  point  this  evening  or  Early  to  morrow  morning 
they  are  to  be  furnished  with  Some  Ax's  and  Such  Other  Too  s 
as  the  D.  Q.  M.  G.  has  in  his  possession — A  Sub  is  to  marclh 
them  Down,  And  Deliver  them  to  the  Engineer. 

For  Police  Captain 

For  the  Day  Adj*  Brown 

S  C  P 

Picqr2t  1 

inG-^  1 

3  days  fatigue  2 

3  days  Com"^  1 

1  weeks  Com^ 

Patroling 

Q'  G"  1 

D.  O.  Haverstraw  November  13*i^  1779 
F.  Officer  Colo  Brent 
B.  G.  M.  Crawhom 


Piquet  1 

Patroll 

inG^  1 

Q'  2 


G.  O.  H.  Q.     West  point  Nov'  13*'>  79 


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